[Mailman-Users] Stripping sig files

[Mark Sapiro]

bruce clark wrote
>
>My problem: the users on my lists are waging a low-level war with  
>their sig files. I do not allow commercial posting so they have  
>started creating sig files with their commercial messages inside them.
>
>This is creating a lot of 'heat' and wasting a huge amount of my time  
>as I try and deal with users. I've gone into content filtering and  
>listed the mime types of images to be filtered, but there is still  
>text in the sig files that I would like to delete before the mail  
>reaches the list.
>
>Is there a way to strip entire sig files?


If you have the ability to modify the Mailman code, you could create a
custom handler to do this. See the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>.


>My FAQ reading mentions something about procmail (which I don't really  
>understand). Should I be teaching myself something about procmail, or  
>should I be putting my energy somewhere else? I guess I would somehow  
>need to intercept the mail between the sender and the receiver and  
>somehow 'fix' it?


If I were you, I would moderate the offending users and simply reject
their posts until they learn.

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