Russell Clemings wrote: >I've had a request from the boss to filter incoming messages to some of our >lists based on the message content. Specifically, the request is to hold all >messages containing the third of George Carlin's seven words (and presumably >by extension also the sixth), which a couple of our subscribers seem to find >suitable for use in any context. > >My first thought, not contradicted by a quick FAQ search, was that there's >no way Mailman can do this on its own, at least without hacking core, >because it's not scanning the whole message.
Yes, and no depending on what you mean by "hacking core" (or is that "hacking code"?). The relevant FAQ is <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>. The handler could be as simple as import re from Mailman import Errors from Mailman.Handlers.Hold import hold_for_approval class BadWords(Errors.HoldMessage): reason = 'Message has bad words' rejection = 'Your message has contains forbidden words.' BADWORDS = re.compile(r'(\W|^)word3(\W|$)|(\W|^)word6(\W|$)', re.I) def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): for part in msg.walk(): if part.is_multipart(): continue if BADWORDS.search(part.get_payload(decode=True)): hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, BadWords) >My second thought was that Spam >Assassin could be set to flag the offending messages; Mailman is already set >to hold messages that have the spam flag set. But that seems like kind of a >kludge. Perhaps, but it is probably easier to manage. >Actually, I take that back. My first thought was to just ban the offenders. >But that's not going to fly. Too bad. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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/archive%40jab.org
