ezmlm-store(1) ezmlm-store(1)
NAME
ezmlm-store - store messages posted to a moderated lists
and send moderation requests to the moderator(s).
SYNOPSIS
ezmlm-store [-cCmMpPrRsSvV] dir
DESCRIPTION
ezmlm-store reads a mail message and stores it in
dir/mod/pending/. ezmlm-store also sends a moderation
request with a copy of the message to the list of modera-
tors stored in dir/mod/subscribers/. If dir/modpost con-
tains a directory name, moddir, with a leading forward
slash, the moderator list in /moddir/subscribers/ is used
instead. This allows separate sets of moderators for sub-
scription and message moderation, as well as the use of
the same moderator list for several ezmlm mailing lists,
owned by the same user. If the -s switch is used, the mod-
erators are divided into two sets. Those pointed to by
dir/modpost which will receive confirmation requests for
posts with their SENDER address, and those stored with the
base directory dir/mod/ which will receive moderation
requests for messages posted from SENDERs not part of the
first group. This can be used to have a set of trusted
users (``moderating'' themselves to thwart SENDER faking),
and a set of more traditional moderators, which receive
approval requests for other posts.
Note: The contents of dir/modpost do not affect the loca-
tion of the message moderation queue.
If SENDER is a moderator, the request is sent to that mod-
erator only.
The moderation request includes cookies for message rejec-
tion and acceptance. The moderator can take either action
by replying to the appropriate address. For moderator
convenience, the accept address is given in the ``Reply-
To:'' header, and the reject address in the ``From:''
header.
The (default) subject of all message moderation requests
is MODERATE for listname@host.
Once the request has been successfully sent to the modera-
tors, ezmlm-store sets the owner-execute bit of the mes-
sage in dir/mod/pending/. Messages without this bit set
are the result of incomplete executions of ezmlm-store and
are ignored.
At the beginning of the message, ezmlm-store prints a new
Mailing-List field with the contents of dir/mailinglist.
It rejects the message if there is already a Mailing-List
field.
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ezmlm-store does not distribute bounce messages: if the
environment variable SENDER is set, and is either empty or
#@[], ezmlm-store rejects the message.
OPTIONS
-cCrR Passed on to ezmlm-send(1) in case this program is
executed. This happens only if dir/modpost does not
exist.
-m (Default.) The post is sent as a MIME enclosure.
-M The post is appended to the message.
-s The contents of dir/modpost with the default
dir/mod/ are used as the base directory for self-
approving users, whereas dir/mod/ is used as the
base directory for the moderators to whom approval
requests for other posts are sent.
-S (Default.) The contents of dir/modpost with the
default dir/mod/ are used as the base directory for
the moderators for all moderator functions.
-p (Default.) Anyone can post. Posts that are not
from a moderator are sent out to all moderators for
approval. Posts that are from a moderator are sent
only to that moderator.
-P Only moderators can post. Those posts are sent to
the posting moderator for approval. Posts from
other addresses are bounced. This can be used to
relatively securely restrict posts to messages
originating from a given set of addresses.
-v Display ezmlm-manage version information.
-V Display ezmlm-manage version information.
USAGE
First of all, remember that ezmlm-store will simply exe-
cute ezmlm-send(1) unless dir/modpost exists. For the
switches, use -P for lists where only moderators can post
securely, i.e. they are asked to approve their own posts
after posting, whereas other SENDERs are rejected. For
low-security more convenient versions of this type of
restriction, see ezmlm-gate(1).
Normally (no switches), posts from moderators are sent for
approval only to the sending moderator, whereas posts from
other addresses are sent to all moderators. Thus, you can
set up an announcement list by adding all potential
posters as moderators. However, you may also want to allow
others to post, as long as the posts are approved. This
would be default ezmlm-store function.
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To make the set of ``approved posters'' who approve their
own posts, different from the set of addresses that
approve posts from other users, use the -s switch. Add a
directory name to dir/modpost. This directory is the base
directory of the ``approved posters'' database. Add the
moderators for other posts to dir/mod/ using ezmlm-sub(1).
CHARACTER SETS
If dir/charset exists, ezmlm-store will use the character
set listed for all messages. Otherwise, the default ``us-
ascii'' will be used. The character set can be suffixed by
``:'' followed by a code. If the code is ``Q'', outgoing
messages are sent as ``Quoted-Printable'', if it is '`B''
they are sent ``base64'' encoded. Otherwise, text is sent
as is.
SEE ALSO
ezmlm-clean(1), ezmlm-manage(1), ezmlm-make(1), ezmlm-moderate(1)
, ezmlm(5)
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© 1994 Man-cgi 1.15, Panagiotis Christias <christia@theseas.ntua.gr>