"BB" == Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net> writes:
BB> Will 2.1 have the ability to just completey *drop* posts
BB> matching a pattern, instead of holding them for moderation?
BB> I've got a couple of lists where Re: posts (replies back to
BB> the list) arent allowed; only initial problem messages and
BB> then a summary/solution posting.General matching against headers with auto-discards probably will not be supported out of the box in MM2.1.
BB> It would be nice if I could have Mailman just *drop* the Re:
BB> posts instead of holding them for moderation; I'd like to
BB> avoid having to use Procmail for this...No need to use Procmail to add this feature though! Simply add a pipeline module that checks the listname, and for those lists that you want to discard Re: messages, simply search Subject: headers for Re:.
Here's some untested code that might get you close. Note that you'll have to add this module to the GLOBAL_PIPELINE, probably just before Hold.py.
-Barry
------------------- snip snip --------------------Mailman/Handlers/DiscardRe.py import re
from Mailman.Errors import DiscardMessage
# If a list is not mentioned here, we don't even search its Subject: LISTNAMES = [ 'norelist1', 'norelist2', # ... ]
# Compiled regular expression that searches for a literal string "Re:" # matching case insensitively. cre = re.compile(r're:', re.IGNORECASE)
def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): if mlist.internal_name() not in LISTNAMES: return subject = msg['subject'] if subject and cre.search(subject): raise DiscardMessage -------------------- snip snip --------------------