Re: [Mailman-Users] So all you people that wanted autoreject...(It was: Re: Reject non-member postings.)
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dan Mick wrote:
... (cut from previous replies) Evilio del Rio wrote:
Hello,
Is there any way to configure a list to ALWAYS reject ANY non-member posting to a restricted list. I do not want them to be held for approval, just reject, full stop.
Adding header patterns to SpamDetect.py is one way, although not trivial. Adding "check for list membership" wouldn't be that hard, but it would take some actual Python coding. I could see if I could hack something like that up if there were sufficient interest.
Proposal: a modification to SpamDetect.py to auto-reject, with no reply message, mail from non-subscribers (on lists with "subscriber posting only" set). Anyone besides Evilio dying for this? ... OK, well, this seems to work. I hacked up SpamDetect.py into a new module, grabbed code from Hold.py to get the sender and look for the member_posting_only option, and do a similar rejection trick to SpamDetect for throwing the message away. It also logs a message to ~mailman/logs/discard every time it rejects a non-subscriber post, so you can see that it's working. ...
....give me some feedback on my solution.
Hi Mick,
Thank you for your interest and your solution.
I didn't test it yet because two reasons (correct me if I am wrong):
a) It puts the rejection mode for all the site and not on alist-by-list basis.
b) It conflicts with another patch to mailman (Hold.py) that wehave here that converts the 'posters' setting into a regular expression (this was done to allow a members-posters-only meta-list).
I think that the right way is:
a) To create a setting for the lists called 'non_members_post_action' (or similar) with three possible values ('Hold for approval', 'Reject' and 'Discard').
b) To incorporate this action in the present message path (maybe this should be the caller of Hold.py)
I would like to work on this but I would appreciare any help because I am not an expert in python. And maybe it's time to change this discussion to the developers list (so I post to it also).
Tia,
Evilio Jose del Rio Silvan Institut de Ciencies del Mar edelrio@icm.csic.es http://members.es.tripod.de/Evilio/ "Something touched me deep inside the day the music died" - D. McLean
I didn't test it yet because two reasons (correct me if I am wrong):
a) It puts the rejection mode for all the site and not on alist-by-list basis.
True, although of course it's only lists with "member_posting_only" set.
b) It conflicts with another patch to mailman (Hold.py) that wehave here that converts the 'posters' setting into a regular expression (this was done to allow a members-posters-only meta-list).
Ah. I looked for a functional interface to determine "list member", but didn't find one; I guess the combination of patches would call for that. The danger of customizing software; didn't know you weren't running standard Mailman, of course.
I think that the right way is:
a) To create a setting for the lists called 'non_members_post_action' (or similar) with three possible values ('Hold for approval', 'Reject' and 'Discard').
b) To incorporate this action in the present message path (maybe this should be the caller of Hold.py)
Well, sure, but obviously this is a lot more work. Ah well.
I would like to work on this but I would appreciare any help because I am not an expert in python. And maybe it's time to change this discussion to the developers list (so I post to it also).
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