One can do a very small amount of hacking to Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py and accomplish the "drop without further notice" action. It's been useful for spammers for me.
Basically, you just add to the list in the file; the comments are pretty readable; take a look and see what you think. > Hi Mike, > > I believe you can specify to *not* send mail to the moderator when > receiving a message to the list that would require approval. That will > at least help her mailbox... but it will still queue the messages in > the admin interface. ::sigh:: > > As far as silently discarding the messages, well, that seems to be a > very popular question. :-) I don't think Mailman itself has any way to > deal with that... next solution I suppose would be something in the > MTA or something between the MTA and mailman, which would bitbucket > mail unless it came from the moderator's email address. ::shrug:: > There are probably a number of ways to do it, but it's going to be a > matter of how much effort you want to put into it. > > =) > Amanda > > > Mike Avery wrote: > > > One of my moderators asked me for help. She runs a > > moderated list, and only wants her messages to go to > > the list. > > > > We've done that. > > > > What is bothering her now is she gets a note every time > > a spammer tries to hit this list. She doesn't want to > > know about it, and she doesn't want to have to manually > > discard every one of the spam attempts. > > > > She wants Mailman to just drop the message into a > > black hole, without telling anyone it happened. > > > > I don't see a way to do that.... am I overlooking > > something? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike-- > > Mike Avery > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Voice: (970)-642-0282 (home) > > (970)-642-0244 (office) > > FAX: (970)-642-0282 > > ICQ: 16241692 > > AOL IM: MAvery81230 > > > > * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other > > way * > > > > A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: > > It's always someone else's problem anyway > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
