[Mailman-Users] Filtering Email Marked SPAM

Lawrence Bowie ldb at freestandards.org
Sat Apr 29 18:53:13 CEST 2006


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Lawrence Bowie wrote:
> 
>> What is the easist way to globally filter email marked SPAM?
> 
> Assuming you mean in Mailman, use the KNOWN_SPAMMERS list in mm_cfg.py,
> e.g.
> 
> KNOWN_SPAMMERS = [('subject', '^.*spam'), ('x-spam-flag', 'yes')]
> 
> This is a list of tuples of (header, regexp) where header is the name
> of a header and regexp is a pattern to search the contents of the
> header. These are case insensitive. Any match will discard the message.
> 
> But, why not have whatever process marks the message as spam discard it.
> 

Good quesiton ... I like to see some of the SPAM to understand patterns. :)

Thanks Mark,

LDB



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