Automatic Deletion of Messages Pending Moderation

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Messages that are pending moderation for 21 days will be deleted automatically from the list of held messages. This purge of older messages prevents the list pending message queues from becoming so large they affect system performance.

Automatic Deletion of Messages Pending Review

The configuration of some Mailman mailing lists will cause some messages to those lists to be held for review by the list administrator/list moderator. The administrator/list moderator is notified of these pending messages at least once a day. One of the duties of a list administrator is to review such pending messages and decide their disposition (reject, discard, accept) in a timely manner.

Mailman can be configured to automatically purge messages pending approval after a specific number of days. To set the number of days Mailman will hold your messages:

  1. Access the list administration website for your mailing list.
  2. The first page you see will require you to enter your list password. Type the password for your list into the box following the words: List Administrator Password: and click on the Let me In button.
  3. Under General Options, scroll down to Discard held messages older than this number of days.
  4. Enter the number of days Mailman is to hold messages pending approval (enter 0 for no automatic discarding of messages). If set to 0 messages will be held for approval until 21 days have passed.
  5. Click the Submit All Data button to invoke your selections.

Messages that are pending moderation for 21 days will be deleted automatically from the list of held messages. This purge of older messages prevents the list pending message queues from becoming so large they affect system performance.

Allowing these messages to accumulate on the mailing list server negatively affects the performance for all lists on the server. To prevent neglected lists from causing problems for the list system as a whole, messages that have been held pending review for 21 or more days will be deleted.

If you, as a list administrator/list moderator, are going to be unable to attend to your list for more than 3 weeks, please arrange to have a list co-administrator or a list moderator process these messages during your absence.

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