Hello -
I've scoured the wiki, FAQ, and mailing list archives but perhaps
I'm not using the right keywords... I'm looking to have Mailman
(2.1.9) automatically reject messages that exceed our pre-set size
limitation.
Why? We have a large number of users who cut/paste debug logs, code
snippets, SVN output, and all manner of text into their messages.
These are NOT attachments; they're text in the message body that is
not MIME encoded. I manage two dozen or so lists, and every day I get
at least 10 moderated messages in my to-be-moderated queues that are
all there because of size overruns. This gets really tedious, since
all I do is "Reject" them with a message about their post exceeding
the size limit.
I see no obvious way that I can set a list (or the whole system, for
that matter) to auto-reject with a message based on size of the
message. It would actually seem to me that this would be a desirable
setting to have overall - is there a recipe for modifying the filter/
actions so that I can make this happen? I'm not a python wizard (or
even neophyte) and I have very little understanding of the internals
of Mailman at this point, so I'd kindly ask that any hints someone has
to offer could be worded in a way that is approachable by a skilled
*NIX admin but not a developer or Mailman wizard. :-) Thanks!
JT
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John Todd wrote:
I see no obvious way that I can set a list (or the whole system, for
that matter) to auto-reject with a message based on size of the
message. It would actually seem to me that this would be a desirable
setting to have overall - is there a recipe for modifying the filter/ actions so that I can make this happen? I'm not a python wizard (or
even neophyte) and I have very little understanding of the internals
of Mailman at this point, so I'd kindly ask that any hints someone has
to offer could be worded in a way that is approachable by a skilled
*NIX admin but not a developer or Mailman wizard. :-) Thanks!
The various miscellaneous holds including message size are only holds. There is no setting to reject or discard messages exceeding the size limit.
If you want to change this, you can do one of two things: You can modify Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py to reject or discard, or you can add a custom handler to do the rejection between Moderate and Hold (see <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>).
Also, if you are going to do this and you also do content filtering, it is probably a good idea to rearrange the pipeline to put MimeDel before hold or your custom handler so you are rejecting on the content filtered size. This can be accomplished by putting the following lines (comments optional) in mm_cfg.py
# # Put MimeDel ahead of Hold so "too big" is based on content filtered # message. # GLOBAL_PIPELINE.remove('MimeDel') GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold'), 'MimeDel')
Making the actions configurable is something that can be considered for MM 3.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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