Stripping signatures from list messages
Is there any way for members of a discussion list to ask Mailman to 'ignore' the rest of their post, similar to the 'end' command when sending an email to the listname-request address? For example a member may have a large footer signature automatically appended to their message when it leaves their mail server, so adding an 'ignore' signal to the end of their message would stop the signature below from being sent to the entire list.
Hope that makes sense!
r.
On 5/17/07, Rodti MacLeary rodti@macleary.com wrote:
Is there any way for members of a discussion list to ask Mailman to 'ignore' the rest of their post, similar to the 'end' command when sending an email to the listname-request address? For example a member may have a large footer signature automatically appended to their message when it leaves their mail server, so adding an 'ignore' signal to the end of their message would stop the signature below from being sent to the entire list.
Mailman has no built-in way of doing this. It seems like this would be difficult to implement if folks are using HTML mail; for plaintext mail, it'd probably be fairly trivial to modify the code to do this.
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- Patrick Bogen
On 5/17/07, Rodti MacLeary wrote:
Is there any way for members of a discussion list to ask Mailman to 'ignore' the rest of their post, similar to the 'end' command when sending an email to the listname-request address? For example a member may have a large footer signature automatically appended to their message when it leaves their mail server, so adding an 'ignore' signal to the end of their message would stop the signature below from being sent to the entire list.
Mailman does not have this functionality, no.
If the signature (or other additional stuff) was enclosed in a separate MIME bodypart, that could potentially be filtered out through the "Content filtering" facilities, but that would be about as far as we can go right now.
If you like, you may be able to create some additional Python code to handle this kind of stuff, but you'd need to find the necessary source module and make your changes there.
If you go this route, please consider contributing your changes back to the project through the appropriate SourceForge "patch" page for Mailman.
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