Feature Request - Inbound MessageID tracking
Ok - I dont know how widely useful this might be - but it would have saved my bacon today.
I had a list get flooded by an upstream mail server that was stuck on sending a message to me. Every message that came in had the same messageID on it - and mailman dutifully kept pushing them out.... 200+ of them before I disabled the mailman list, and finally got the other server admin to clean up his machine.
Would it be possible in the next release to get some sort of tracking on processed messages - tracking by incoming messageID - such that this sort of problem wouldnt be sent out to list subscribers? A message to the mailman-owner alias indicating the problem when it gets found should be sufficient to alert the admin to look into things.
"SB" == Scott Brown <scott-brown@home.com> writes:
SB> Would it be possible in the next release to get some sort of
SB> tracking on processed messages - tracking by incoming
SB> messageID - such that this sort of problem wouldnt be sent out
SB> to list subscribers?Yes, it's a good idea. Message ID's should be tracked for a short amount of time.
-Barry
On Jan 28, 2001 at 01:10, Scott Brown wrote:
sending a message to me. Every message that came in had the same messageID on it - and mailman dutifully kept pushing them out.... 200+ of them before [snip]
Would it be possible in the next release to get some sort of tracking on processed messages - tracking by incoming messageID - such that this sort
I may have a suggestion for a temporary solution.
There is a procmail (yes, procmail. Hear me out.) recipe to do exactly this. It involves piping through formail, collecting message-ids and comparing with a cache. I don't know how you could force each message through formail, except through some simple but non-trivial shell scripts.
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