[Mailman-Users] Automate Moderator Functions

[Mark Sapiro]

Dennis Putnam wrote:
>
>The same might be true for
>exceeding the size limit.


To automatically reject or discard messages that exceed the list's size
limit, find the section of the Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py that ends with
the lines


        if bodylen/1024.0 > mlist.max_message_size:
            hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata,
                              MessageTooBig(bodylen,
mlist.max_message_size))
            # no return

(there is one wrapped line in the above) and replace

            hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata,
                              MessageTooBig(bodylen,
mlist.max_message_size))

with

            rej = MessageTooBig(bodylen, mlist.max_message_size))
            raise Errors.RejectMessage, rej.reason_notice

to reject the message or with

            raise Errors.DiscardMessage

to discard the message. Note that this will not honor the list's
forward_auto_discards setting. to do that you would need to put

from Mailman.Handlers.Moderate import do_discard

with the other imports near the beginning of the
Mailman.Handlers.hold.py module and then replace the lines with

            do_discard(mlist, msg)

If you are actually going to do any of the above, I suggest you also
put the following in mm_cfg.py for the stated reason

#
# Put MimeDel ahead of Hold so "too big" is based on content filtered
# message.
#
GLOBAL_PIPELINE.remove('MimeDel')
GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold'), 'MimeDel')


Instead of modifying Hold.py, you could make a custom handler (see
<http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>) to deal with oversized messages and put
it ahead of Hold in the pipeline or possibly just replace Hold.py with
a custom version.

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