[Mailman-Users] Feature i REALLY miss in gnu/mailman

[Dan Wilder]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:10:50PM +0100, Steinar Eliassen wrote:
> Due to the very nice web-based interface to GNU/Mailman, i have taken nearly
> all my mailinglists from Majordomo to GNU/Mailman. But in this time of HUGE
> ammont of email viruses, there is just ONE THING i miss with mailman, that
> should be VERY simple to implement...
> 
> GNU/Mailman can bounce messages that contain stuff in the header of a message
> like TABOO_HEADER in Majordomo, but lacks the TABOO_BODY (bounce emails that
> contains certain stuff in the body of the message). This is VERY handy for
> bouncing emails that contains executables, WORD doduments, Java / VB scripts
> and simular, _very_ handy to stop viruses from coming to the list! :)
> 
> I hope this can be implemented! :)
> 
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No doubt there are plans in progress.

Meantime, you can achieve very flexible screening by front-ending
mailman's submission address with procmail, or any one of several
other filters.

I myself wouldn't even consider operating a mailing list without
a screening filter on the front end.  That's what we did with our
Majordomo lists, and that's what we do now that all our lists
have been moved to Mailman.

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