SYMPA::SPINDLE::AUTHORIZEMESSAGE(3Sympa)

💖 Sympa::Spindle::AuthorizeMessage 💖

okay bestie, so the manual name is Sympa::Spin...rizeMessage(3Sympa) and this whole thing is about the AuthorizeMessage class — the workflow that authorizes messages bound for lists. yes, the whole gatekeeper era. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Sympa::Spindle::AuthorizeMessage — the workflow that authorizes messages bound for lists. it's giving bouncer at the club, but make it Perl. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Sympa::Spindle::AuthorizeMessage authorizes messages and stores them into confirmation spool, moderation spool or the lists. three possible homes, one very hardworking class. no cap.

• Messages fetched from incoming ("msg") spool or held ("auth") spool may be passed to this class — but messages fetched from moderation spool won't be passed to this class, so don't even try it, that's not her lane. 🙅‍♀️
• Then this class checks the message with "send" scenario. that's the vibe check right there.
• According to the results of scenario processing, each message is passed to any of classes for succeeding processing:
  • Sympa::Spindle::DistributeMessage for "do_it" (except if tagging topics is required or when personalization failed)
  • Sympa::Spindle::ToHeld for "request_auth" (except if personalization failed)
  • Sympa::Spindle::ToModeration for "editorkey" (except if personalization failed)
  • Sympa::Spindle::ToEditor for "editor"
  • otherwise reject it 😭

If the message was confirmed, i.e. it has been fetched from held spool and at last decided to be distributed, "X-Validation-By" header field is added. If the message at last will be distributed, "{shelved}" attribute (see Sympa::Message) is added as necessity. little tracker, little receipt, we love a paper trail. 🎀

👑 Public methods 👑

See also "Public methods" in Sympa::Spindle — the family tree is right there, iykyk.

• new ( key => value, ... ) — In most cases, Sympa::Spindle::DoMessage splices messages to this class. This method is not used in ordinal case. so like, it's real, it exists, but it's not the main character here. 💀
• spin ( ) — Not implemented. that's it. that's the whole thing. bestie is on break. 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Sympa::Internals::Workflow.
• Sympa::Message, Sympa::Scenario, Sympa::Spindle::DistributeMessage, Sympa::Spindle::DoMessage, Sympa::Spindle::ProcessHeld, Sympa::Spindle::ToEditor, Sympa::Spindle::ToHeld, Sympa::Spindle::ToModeration, Sympa::Spool::Topic.

the whole friend group, assembled. 🫶

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

Sympa::Spindle::AuthorizeMessage appeared on Sympa 6.2.13. glow-up origin story, honestly iconic. 🔥

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and that's the tea, bestie — this page lives in sympa version 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19. take care of her, she's been holding down the authorize-message game since 6.2.13 💜✨