[Tfug] Mailman, Postfix and SpamAssassin (oh my)

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Sam,

I was going to recommend piping the alias through a script to search for
certain criteria (e.g. sex, teen, viagra, and a million different words
which I won't speak in here) before it does anything else with it.
I think you're on the right track, Sam.


Jon

> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 09:20, bigj@flatwan.net wrote:
>> I'm not sure if you're going to get procmail, a Local Delivery Agent,
>> to check all mail before it's handed off to Sendmail.
>
> I wasn't sure where procmail should be working. I assumed it would run
> /before/ passing the mail off to mailman... that's all.
>
> As a matter of fact.. it kind of seems logical that way. I assumed it
> was just treating all the mailman aliases as accounts.
>
>> Sounds like you need to configure mailman so that it only allows
>> subscribers to post to the list. The Tfug list, using Mailman, is
>> configured this way.
>
> Unfortunatley, for most open-source/free-software development projects,
> this simply isn't the most practical option. Since we are a development
> group, we really can't require all of our lists to do this (especially
> open-bug tracking ones which have scant few subscribers but allow
> external posts... seriously, would you report bugs on a project if you
> had to subscribe to a mailing list to do so? ;-)
>
> Actually, after a good nights rest, I realize the best solution would
> be to make a wrapper around mailman's wrapper (this was actually
> proposed on the mailman dev list, but I was too tired last night to see
> the benefits :-) that takes care of these things before hand rather
> than after.
>
> Anyone interested, let me know and I'll put the code online.
>
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