Re: pending posts although subscribed

Posted by GregChapman on Feb 11, 2015; 1:32am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/pending-posts-although-subscribed-tp7593894p7593897.html

Jess_M wrote

i have problems with pending posts. I know about registration to the forum and subscribing to the mailing list and did everything as recommanded. I registered for the forum  vtigercrm-developers and also subscribed to the mailing list. i get emails via the mailing list but when i log in to the forum i can see that my posts are still pending...

Unless there is a strange bug with your particular mail list, the only reason for there being pending posts at Nabble is because you have NOT subscribed to the mail list itself. (Don't confuse subscribing to the archive and subscribing to the list!)

You need to be fully aware of the mechanic's of a mail list archive hosted at Nabble.

Nabble is simply a subscriber at the mail list. Any mail received from the mail list server will be added it to it's archive.

Subscribing at the Nabble archive, simply gets you copies of anything received from the mail list server by Nabble as emails.

Registering at the Nabble archive will allow you to post at the archive. Nabble does two things with a message posted at the archive:

1. It generates an email from your post and forwards it to the mail list.
2. It presents you, and only you, with a "pending" notification. No other Nabble user will be aware of your post.

If Nabble receives, through its subscription to the mail list, a copy of your message it then removes the "pending" notice that only you see and adds the message it's received from the mail list to its archive. Only then do you and everyone else see that message in the archive.

It is therefore vital that you subscribe at the mail list server. If you don't, any email generated by Nabble on your behalf will not be accepted by the mail list and so won't appear on Nabble's archive - but it will continue to show to you as pending.