[Mailman-Users] Spam Issue
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Tue Jan 6 02:52:26 CET 2004
Lee> I administer a Mailman mailing list, and spam is a major problem.
Lee> I chose the option of permitting posting only by members to avoid
Lee> spamming the members. However, that causes all spam to be held for
Lee> administrative action. That means I have to laboriously scroll
Lee> down the page checking "Discard" for every message. Finding the
Lee> selection button and clicking requires concentration. Tonight I
Lee> discarded 140 messages, and the problem is growing.
Lee> Is there any way to simply discard all non-member email or check
Lee> Discard for all messages?
I'm sure there are other solutions by now, but awhile ago I wrote a simple
script to do a bulk discard:
http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/mmdiscard.py
I've only ever used it with MM 2.1. YMMV with other versions.
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Skip Montanaro
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