I've put together a profanity word list that I'd like to block on our
mailing lists. I'm attempting to run this through the spam filters in
Mailman.
Since these phrases are quite toxic to work with I've added a tame
example. ;-)
*I'm able to block words without an issue. But I'm having problems with
two things:*
1. *I'm unable to match a phrase only.*
e.g. "she is mad"
So far if I enter something like this it will match both words in
the phrase anywhere in a message.
* Hence an innocent user using the a phrase like "she is a
darling" would also be blocked.
* As would someone mentioning the word "mad" in an non derogatory
way.
/I've tried /*
*
* \bold fart| (Which seems to best match the entire word without
matching it in another word)
* ^\bold fart|
* old fart|
* old fart
* ^old fart
I've tested this at http://pythex.org/ for syntax issues. Pythex shows
it matching only the phrase.
But once popped into Mailman the spam filter matches any of the words in
the phrase.
It seems that the issue is related to how Mailman parses this string. It
seems to lose all the custom regex and search each word individually.
2. *Mailman completely ignores \b switches *
/All of these Filters:/
* \btest|
* test|
* ^test|
* ^\btest|
/matches: /
* test
* tester
* testing
* tested
It seems that mailman does not acknowledge the regex I insert and simply
searches for the phrase anywhere including in words.
*About the pipe on the end of search phrases (I've come across a post
that says for a pipe is needed if you have lists of words in your spam
rule)
Does anyone using this feature have advice for me?
Warm Regards
Barco
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