Okay, dokey. I wrote the work-around that deletes the waiting spam. The reason I don't worry about the waiting subscriptions is that on my lists, I never get any. I only close my lists to email that doesn't belong to folks from the list. Anyone can subscribe to the lists.
The few lists I have where the subscriptions are closed, only folks that I know are added, and those folks email me directly. So yes, I think that is a satisfactory solution. That's why I wrote it that way. If I didn't think it was satisfactory, I would simply add a grep statement to the script kicked off by the cron, and remove the requests from the files that are to be deleted. Then I would re-add the request after cleaning out the request.db file. Alternately, you could write a python script to pull out the spam and separate it from the requests. Of course if I was going that far, I would let that script remove the spam files. Of course, at the time I wrote that script, I barely knew python... As someone else already pointed out, you can simply upgrade to the latest beta. Good Luck - Jon Carnes === On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 19:57, Jerry wrote: > I've run into a problem that I'm sure someone must have addressed by > now, and I appologize in advance if this is an old thread. (A search of > the archives returned so many near misses that I finally gave up > looking.) I run a private mailMan list with a little over a hundred > subscribers, and each day I must deal with about a dozen spam messages > held for my approval. I've read everything I could find, but have not > discovered a way to have mailMan automatically delete these messages. > The closest I came was in one of the FAQs, where it was suggested that I > run a cron script that would delete them. The only problem with that was > that the script also deletes subscription requests. (I can't imagine > anyone thinking that was a satisfactory solution!) Surely there's a > better way! Anyone? > > > All the best, > Jerry > > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
