Hi! Developers,

It is cumbersome to click 'Discard' on the admindb page each time a spam message come to the list address or at least every day basis. If we have an automatic discard function which will be ivoked by cron, we can just check the admin notice and do nothing. The held message will disappear two or three days later. Following script will do the job (I hope).

Please review it and comment! Would it be better to define the expiration period in mm_cfg.py ?

(I omitted the copyright/license notices)

Regards, Tokio Kikuchi

#!/usr/bin/env python # import sys import paths import time from Mailman import mm_cfg from Mailman import MailList from Mailman import Utils

expire = 2 * 24 * 60 * 60 # 2 days now = time.time()

def auto_discard(mlist): if not mlist.NumRequestsPending(): return heldmsgs = mlist.GetHeldMessageIds() total = len(heldmsgs) if total: for id in heldmsgs: info = mlist.GetRecord(id) ptime,sender,subject,reason,filename,msgdata = info if now - ptime > expire: print 'DISCARD',id, ptime, sender, subject mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD) mlist.Save()

def main(): confined_to = sys.argv[1:] for listname in Utils.list_names(): if confined_to and listname not in confined_to: continue mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) mlist.Lock() auto_discard(mlist) mlist.Unlock()

if __name__ == '__main__': main()