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Subject: Re: Approving maxlength bounced mail
From: "Troy S. Choi" <tchoi @ isi . com>
Organization: Intergrated Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:08:34 -0700
To: Jeffrey Goldberg <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>, Ben Smithurst <ben @ scientia . demon . co . uk>
Cc: MJ_users <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980616074343.465D-100000@arpad.thegreen.private>
Reply-to: tchoi @ isi . com

Thank you all, it worked fine! ;-)

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Troy S. Choi wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me what is the proper syntax to appove posting of
> > bounced oversize mail(maxlength set in config)?
> > I think the version is 1.94.4.
> 
> The same way you approve any posting that requires approval such as
> non-member submissions, things caught by administravia traps, etc.
> 
> On systems with pipes and perl you can simply pine the message through
> the approve script.
> 
> On other systems, you follow the instructions in the guide to list
> managers, which describes that you send the message (with the headers)
> back to the list, but you make the first header line
> 
>   Approved: APPROVE-PASSWORD
> 
> See the docs for more detail.
> 
> -j
> --
> Jeffrey Goldberg                +44 (0)1234 750 111 x 2826
>  Cranfield Computer Centre      FAX         751 814
>  J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk     http://WWW.Cranfield.ac.uk/public/cc/cc047/
> Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice.

Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Troy S. Choi wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me what is the proper syntax to appove posting of
> > bounced oversize mail(maxlength set in config)?
> > I think the version is 1.94.4.
> 
> Just copy the message with all the headers into a new mail message,
> add a header before like
> 
> Approved: myapprovepassword
> 
> (don't worry, that line is removed before sending). Note there must
> NOT be a blank line after that and before the rest of the headers. eg,
> I might send something like
> 
> Approved: xxxx
> Received: from majordom by scientia.demon.co.uk ....
> 
> etc.
> 
> If you just include the original Subject, Date, From, and To, that
> might be good enough. Make sure that your mailer doesn't put > at the
> beginning of each line when you forward it though :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Ben Smithurst                                 ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

-- 
Best regards,
---
Troy S. Choi


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