At 2:09 AM -0400 8/15/02, Tapani Tarvainen is rumored to have typed:
Is the recipe/script(s) you're using freely available somewhere?
No, but it's really quite simple. The company put it together back in the days before there was a moderator_password, and never changed over since the maintainers like it.
Just picking the approval code from Subject: should be easy enough, but unmunging whatever moderator's MUA may have done while resending it sounds harder.
Are you assuming Forward and picking the original From: from the message body and stripping any wrappings added (like "--- Begin forwarded message ---" and the like)?
No, lord no...you're assuming a forward instead of a redirect. Redirecting an email message in reasonable clients eliminates all of those problems. (Don't ask me about OE; I said, "reasonable.")
Incidentally, instead of Subject: it should also be possible to use To: field to pass the approval, in the form
Ain't open-source software wonderful? You can use anything you want; From: header field, perhaps?
Charlie