[Mailman-Users] Dealing with Spam

[Jon Carnes]

Okay, dokey.  I wrote the work-around that deletes the waiting spam. 
The reason I don't worry about the waiting subscriptions is that on my
lists, I never get any.  I only close my lists to email that doesn't
belong to folks from the list.  Anyone can subscribe to the lists.

The few lists I have where the subscriptions are closed, only folks that
I know are added, and those folks email me directly.

So yes, I think that is a satisfactory solution.  That's why I wrote it
that way.

If I didn't think it was satisfactory, I would simply add a grep
statement to the script kicked off by the cron, and remove the requests
from the files that are to be deleted.  Then I would re-add the request
after cleaning out the request.db file.

Alternately, you could write a python script to pull out the spam and
separate it from the requests. Of course if I was going that far, I
would let that script remove the spam files. 
Of course, at the time I wrote that script, I barely knew python...

As someone else already pointed out, you can simply upgrade to the
latest beta.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes
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On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 19:57, Jerry wrote:
> I've run into a problem that I'm sure someone must have addressed by
> now, and I appologize in advance if this is an old thread. (A search of
> the archives returned so many near misses that I finally gave up
> looking.) I run a private mailMan list with a little over a hundred
> subscribers, and each day I must deal with about a dozen spam messages
> held for my approval. I've read everything I could find, but have not
> discovered a way to have mailMan automatically delete these messages.
> The closest I came was in one of the FAQs, where it was suggested that I
> run a cron script that would delete them. The only problem with that was
> that the script also deletes subscription requests. (I can't imagine
> anyone thinking that was a satisfactory solution!) Surely there's a
> better way! Anyone?
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> All the best,
> Jerry
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