Configuring the Mailman List to Never Hold Anything for Moderator Approval

The hosting firm always creates a mailing list with the names and email addresses of its members on it. Currently, a message posted to that email list is approved by the moderator. None of the recipients can view it until then.

The Moderator then approves it and adds the sender’s mail id in the sender filter. Now the sender can directly send the emails to the recipients. But every time if an email is sent by the third-party, it’s not possible for the Moderator to always approve it.

Steps to Follow for Allowing the Non-Member Postings by the Recipients:

Emails sent by members under the default Mailman settings aren’t moderated, but the non-member emails are by default moderated. For allowing the non-members to post freely, this setting can be change as below:

1. In the Mailman settings go to the Privacy Options -> Sender Filters.

2. Next go to “Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined”.

3. By default it is selected as Hold. Change that to Accept so that the non-member postings will be received by the recipients.

In this manner, the recipients can also get postings from non-members without having to wait for the moderator’s permission.