[Mailman-Users] Remove / Strip Sender Signature Question

[Artabase]

Hi Mark

Thanks so much for your detailed and perceptive response. You got
everything on the mark and I haven't tried it yet but I believe your
regexp is what I'm looking for.

Many thanks for taking the time to respond to my query.

Rebecca


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Artabase wrote:
>   
>> I searched archives and checked faq but couldn't find this, apologies if
>> I'm keyword 'tarded this morning.
>>
>> Is it possible to strip the Sender Signature?
>>     
>
>
> What is the sender signature?
>
>
>   
>> Our lists are subscribed to some other lists, and we're having problems
>> with members unsubscribing us from those lists instead of unsubbing from
>> ours.
>>     
>
>
> Do you mean that your list is subscribed to some other list, and the
> other list adds a footer similar to the following:
>
>   
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
>> Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3
>> Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
>> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
>> Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/yourlist%40yourdomain
>>     
>
>
> and then members of your list see that footer, follow the Unsubscribe
> link, request unsubscription, and then receive the confirmation (sent
> to your list) and confirm the unsubscribe?
>
> If that's what you mean, you have a couple of choices. Mailman has no
> facility for removing that footer from the post to your list, but you
> can add your own footer with a message something like
>
> DO NOT USE THE ABOVE LINK TO UNSUBSCRIBE!
> To unsubscribe from this list, go to http://... or send a blank email
> to yourlist-unsubscribe at yourdomain.
>
> Or you could add header_filter_rules to your list with regexps like
>
> ^subject:\s*confirm [0-9a-f]{32}\s*$
> ^from:.*-confirm\+[0-9a-f]{32}@
>
> and an action of Discard to prevent the confirmations from reaching
> your list.
>
> Of course someone with intent to unsubscribe your list from the remote
> list could always request a password reminder from the remote list
> which would be posted to your list, and then use the password to
> unsubscribe without confirmation.
>
> You could add
>
> ^subject:\s*[^\s@]+@[^\s]+\s+mailing list reminder\s*$
>
> to the regexps above to stop the password reminders too.
>
>
> If the above is not the scenario that you are encountering, then please
> be more specific about exactly what it is.
>
>