Review a list of messages in the moderation queue. You can set the Moderation Action to 'Accept' or 'Delete' for those messages you wish to act on, or leave this value set to 'Skip' for any messages that you don't wish to act upon at this time. Skipped messages eventually timeout (after approximately five days by default), are wrapped in a timeout message and returned to sender, so you don't have to act on every single message in the moderation queue because stale messages are automatically cleaned out. You can also click a sender email address if you want to send a personalized message to someone with a message in the moderation queue.

If you want to moderate a single mailing list, enter the mailing list name in the List Name text box and click the Search button. If you want to moderate posts from a specific sender, enter the sender's email address in the Sender text box and click Search. The search can perform partial matches, so if you only enter an email domain in the Sender text box, your search would return all senders using that domain. This is also true of the List Name search. For example, you could retrieve messages for all mailing lists whose names begin with the letter 'a' by entering 'a' in the List Name text box. If you enter values in both the List Name and Sender fields, the results display moderation messages that meet both of these criteria.

You can reduce or expand the number of results displayed on a single page by selecting the desired value in the 'Results per page' pull-down list, then clicking the Change button. If the results are displayed on multiple pages, you can set the moderation actions for pending messages on all pages before moving on to the next step.

When you are satisfied with your moderation actions, click the Preview button to proceed to the Preview step.

Messages pending moderation are displayed, along with the Moderation Action to be performed for each message. Accepted messages are immediately posted to the mailing list. Deleted messages are immediately and permanently removed from the moderation queue without automated email notification. Skipped messages remain in the moderation queue until they are acted upon or timeout. If you want to send an email to any of these senders, click the sender's email address. When you are satisfied with your settings, click the Save button to perform these moderation actions.

The total number of messages that have been Accepted, Deleted or Skipped is displayed. You may use the Back button if you wish to return to the prior step to send an email or review which action was taken on which message, but you won't be able to edit your actions.