[Mailman-Users] Blocking or holding subscribe requests when email address contains "+"

[Richard Damon]

The only thing I can think of is to require approval of all subscriptions (and maybe confirmation) and then build a regexp to auto approve all addresses without a + in them. I don't know how this will interact with the ban list (if you need that).



> On Sep 15, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Gibbs, David <david at midrange.com> wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> 
> I'm looking for a way to block, or preferably hold for approval, subscribe requests where the email address contains a plus sign.
> 
> I've been getting a lot of subscribe requests from bogus email addresses that look like: adfslij+32987234 at gmail.com.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> david
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