Mikael Jokela wrote:

I would like to set a default value of header_filter_rules for new lists. It would be something like this

DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES = [('X-Spam-Flag: YES', 3, False)]

The purpose would be to discard all messages that are marked as spam.

header_filter_rules is set to the empty list when a new list is created. There is no configuration option to do otherwise. To change this, you could modify the line

    self.header_filter_rules = []

in the definition of the InitVars() method of the MailList() class in Mailman/MailList.py to read

    self.header_filter_rules = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES

and then Mailman would get this from a definition in mm_cfg.py or Defaults.py. Of course, it must then be defined. I.e. a full implementation would patch the source Defaults.py.in to include

DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES = []

and some documentation. This then would add

DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES = []

to Defaults.py when Mailman was configured, and then this setting could be overridden in mm_cfg.py.

I can't get this kind of default configuration working nor find any other way of doing this apart from doing this manually after creating the list.

You either need to implement something on the above lines or do it somewhat manually. You can do it by manually running something like

#!/ban/bash f = mktemp echo "header_filter_rules = [('X-Spam-Flag: YES', 3, False)]" > $f /path/to/mailman/bin/config_list -i $f NEW_LIST_NAME rm $f

after creating NEW_LIST_NAME, or see <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/set_attributes>.

If you create lists from the command line, you could make one script to invoke bin/newlist to create the list followed by the above to configure it.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Mikael Jokela wrote:

I would like to set a default value of header_filter_rules for new lists. It would be something like this

DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES = [('X-Spam-Flag: YES', 3, False)]

The purpose would be to discard all messages that are marked as spam.

header_filter_rules is set to the empty list when a new list is created. There is no configuration option to do otherwise. To change this, you could modify the line

    self.header_filter_rules = []

in the definition of the InitVars() method of the MailList() class in Mailman/MailList.py to read

    self.header_filter_rules = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES

and then Mailman would get this from a definition in mm_cfg.py or Defaults.py. Of course, it must then be defined. I.e. a full implementation would patch the source Defaults.py.in to include

DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES = []

and some documentation. This then would add

DEFAULT_HEADER_FILTER_RULES = []

to Defaults.py when Mailman was configured, and then this setting could be overridden in mm_cfg.py.

I can't get this kind of default configuration working nor find any other way of doing this apart from doing this manually after creating the list.

You either need to implement something on the above lines or do it somewhat manually. You can do it by manually running something like

#!/ban/bash f = mktemp echo "header_filter_rules = [('X-Spam-Flag: YES', 3, False)]" > $f /path/to/mailman/bin/config_list -i $f NEW_LIST_NAME rm $f

after creating NEW_LIST_NAME, or see <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/set_attributes>.

If you create lists from the command line, you could make one script to invoke bin/newlist to create the list followed by the above to configure it.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan