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[Peter Polkinghorne <address@concealed>]

Well having thought about this a bit further, there are 2 obvious solutions:

1) Get the moderators or editors to ensure that their out of office is ONLY 
sent when they are in the to: or cc: fields - I have rejected this as too 
much work and too likely to go wrong.

2) Use a more controlled send scenario - Moderated, even for Moderators 
(editorkeyonly) or Moderated with editor confirmation (editorkeyonlyauth). 
The difference between these two, is that for the later, moderators or 
editors confirm their own posts whereas the first all posts are put up for 
moderation, regardless who sent.

I did note that the request_auth action was not really defined that I could 
find in the manual. As far as I can see just means confirmation email 
response is sent back that requires a response to confirm the action.

This does mean that the Moderated (editorkey) scenario is vulnerable to the 
previously described Out of Office behaviour.

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Peter Polkinghorne
Computer Officer (Systems)
Computer Centre
x67070
 
-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On 
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Sent: 15 October 2010 16:11
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] Moderated Lists & Out of Office messages


We have a number of lists that are moderated using the Moderated (editorkey)
scenario.

The problem we have is if someone send a message to the list, a message is in
turn sent to the moderators from the list asking if they wish to let the
message through. This message is sent from listname-request, with a reply-to
of sympa. If any of the moderators have an out of office on, the whole list
receives the out of office.

This appears to be because the moderators can send directly to the list and
that is where the out of office messages are going.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Peter Polkinghorne