At 11:52 PM -0800 2/20/2000, Cyndi Norman wrote:
> And my system traps them unposted and sends them a nice note on how
> to do it correctly.
>
>I'd love something like that.
I'm currently doing it with procmail. Nice, but -- adds a lot of
complexity, more stuff to maintain, more scripts to worry about, etc.
I'm going to (I'm pretty sure) moving to Sympa soon, and I think that
I'm going to do it differently there, by setting up a couple of
scripts, one global, one per-list, that are executed on each message,
and which return a "okay to post/not okay" return flag to the MLM.
I'd then have the ability to write a perl script or whatever to
oversee things, and do whatever I feel necessary with a lot less
hassle than procmail, and integrated within the MLM for the most part.
>Either way the posts don't go to the list but I have to respond to the
>person by hand if they are to get any reply.
Ack. majordomo 1.53.3 did that -- I hacked a few back-end filters
that caught those and sent a message back FOR me, but that was ugly.
is ugly. Whatever. I think 1.53.4 has more flexibility here, but
offhand, I can't remember for sure. It's been a bit since I hacked on
them.
Another thing I was thinking about, and I'll throw this out just to
see what people think...
I was thinking today of the hassle of building/maintaining/updating
the aliases for lists, especially when you get lots of them on a
server. And so I've been thinking of using a virtual host which sends
ALL mail to that subdomain to a program, which figures out what to do
with them by finding out what lists exist and forwarding things to
the "right place" through either a set of rules, lookups in a
database, or most likely a combination of both...
Might be a way to automate one more aspect of creating and
maintaining lists. thoughts?
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