On 07/28/21 15:24, Karl Berry wrote:
- At least in my cases, the floods try to subscribe the same address over and over (and over and ...). It occurs to me that mailman could silently discard a request to subscribe an address foo@bar.com if foo@bar.com already has a pending subscription -- that is, not sending out the confirmation request. Would this be doable? Mark, anyone?
You can probably do this with a procmail filter before anything hits mailman itself. (I filter spam this way.) I have not worked out the details. But the procmail recipe would run a script that would extract the email address from the message, call it "Fromaddress", and then
grep Fromaddress /var/log/mailman/subscribe | grep pending
and then if that is empty, pass the subscribe message on to the usual place (which, for me is
|/etc/smrsh/mailman join [name of list]
(This is the line in procmailrc that does it.)
Otherwise send the message to spam or /dev/null
Sorry about not working out the details, but I thought it might be better to say something rather than nothing.
Jon
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron Associate webmaster: sjdm.org