This procmail recipe would do the trick. No more spam on the list. (there *might* be one or two, occassionally, but that password would be promptly killed. )
Anyone subscribing to the list would have to validate their address by answering a CR, which is *standard* pracice on the vast majority of mailing lists. They send you an email with your subscription info and ask you to validate the address by returning it. To protect you from being subscribed by someone else, is what they say. This is a CR system...... This would match the address with the password, (or fail to pass the mail) and strip the password out. Mbox format is assumed. STRING is just a fixed string to make the password easy to egrep. Something like DEBIANRULES that prefixes each password. A 20 character password is assumed, with no spaces. :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] { :0 B * .*STRINGlongpassword | sed '/.*STRING[^ ]\{20\}/d' >> <mailqueue file> } Alan C. -- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd for the scripts and docs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]