If you are a moderator for a mailing list, you are likely to receive a message from the Mailman system asking you to deal with a message that has been held for approval.
The message (which will have come from the apparent owner of the mailing list) will look something like this:
As list administrator/moderator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting:
List: mailinglist-name@sussex.ac.uk
From: a.n.other@anywhere.com
Subject: Any subject
Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list
At your convenience, visit:
mail.sussex.ac.uk/mailman/admindb/mailinglist-name
to approve or deny the request.
If you click on the web address provided, this will open up the moderator's page for your mailing list. You will need to enter the moderator's password (not your own personal password) to gain entry.
You'll then be shown a page giving details of the held message, a link to read the message content, and the various options available to you.
There are other useful options on the page, including an option to make a moderated list member unmoderated (so that their postings will be accepted automatically in future).
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