[Mailman-Users] Just drop it?

[Dan Mick]

One can do a very small amount of hacking to Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py
and accomplish the "drop without further notice" action.  It's
been useful for spammers for me.

Basically, you just add to the list in the file; the comments
are pretty readable; take a look and see what you think.

> Hi Mike,
> 
> I believe you can specify to *not* send mail to the moderator when
> receiving a message to the list that would require approval. That will
> at least help her mailbox... but it will still queue the messages in
> the admin interface. ::sigh::
> 
> As far as silently discarding the messages, well, that seems to be a
> very popular question. :-) I don't think Mailman itself has any way to
> deal with that... next solution I suppose would be something in the
> MTA or something between the MTA and mailman, which would bitbucket
> mail unless it came from the moderator's email address. ::shrug::
> There are probably a number of ways to do it, but it's going to be a
> matter of how much effort you want to put into it.
> 
> =)
> Amanda
> 
> 
> Mike Avery wrote:
> 
> > One of my moderators asked me for help.  She runs a
> > moderated list, and only wants her messages to go to
> > the list.
> >
> > We've done that.
> >
> > What is bothering her now is she gets a note every time
> > a spammer tries to hit this list.  She doesn't want to
> > know about it, and she doesn't want to have to manually
> > discard every one of the spam attempts.
> >
> > She wants Mailman to just drop the message into a
> > black hole, without telling anyone it happened.
> >
> > I don't see a way to do that.... am I overlooking
> > something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike--
> > Mike Avery
> > MAvery at mail.otherwhen.com
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> >
> > * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other
> > way *
> >
> > A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day:
> > It's always someone else's problem anyway
> >
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