In addition to the web-based access to list settings, Mailman provides three links at the top of each administrative page for "other" activities.

There are primarily three instances when you will need to tend to administrative requests.  Whether the administrator is notified immediately for each request or just once per day is dictated by the switch in Mailman's general settings section.  Note that if you have multiple requests pending you can work your way down the page clicking the appropriate action for each request before submitting them all at once.  You do not need to click on the submit action on this page after answering individual requests.

1. When a posting is held because it was posted by a non-member. If you are running a list on which only members can post, items that are being held for review will appear in this section for your review.  As the list administrator you have three options.

• Accept the posting and forward it to list members.
• Deny approval: the original poster will be sent notification of the rejected posting request along with the explanation that appears in the message box on this screen. You may customize the message as you see fit.
• Reject the message with no notification sent to the poster. This is particularly useful for spam.

2. When you operate a moderated list, you will use this feature to accept or reject postings following the same guidelines as for non-members postings above.

3. When you operate a list where subscription requires administrator approval, user petitions to join will be listed on this page. You should click accept or deny as appropriate.

Following this link takes you to the list's "public" information page. This is the page that your subscribers use to log in and modify their settings, it is also the gateway to the list archive.

Mailman allows you to customize the look and feel for many of the pages that are accessible by your list subscribers. This is nice if you want to take the time to "brand" web pages. The following pages can be customized:

• The general list information page
• The subscriptions results page
• The user specific options page
• The changing user options results page

When you follow the link to a particular page you are shown the source HTML in a browser window. In order to make modification you will need to know how to write raw HTML code and insert it in the proper places in the page source. It is important to note that within the source there are embedded Mailman fields that are inserter on-the-fly when the user loads the page. You can identify the Mailman fields because they are enclosed in angle brackets and are of the form
<MM-Field-Name>

It is suggested that you not make modifications to the Mailman field tags unless you are an advanced user who understands the implications of modifying or removing these fields.