Jim Popovitch wrote: > >what would it take to have Mailman strip lines >that begin with special characters. For instance, if I change my >footers on the "top posters" lists to something like this: > > ++ ----------------------------- > ++ Top Posters mailing list at lusers.tld > ++ http://lusers.tld/mailman/listinfo/top-posters > ++ FAQ: (not needed since they won't read it) > ++ Search http://....... > >could Mailman be modified/configure to remove all "footer" messages that >begin with "++ "? I know of the possibilities for things to go bad >when editing the body, but it just seems like a good oppty to auto clean >up messages that others don't.
There is no configuration option to do this. If you want to do it in code, you could implement a custom handler to do it (see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.067.htp>). It may not be straightforward depending on what content filtering you already do. I would add the handler after the existing content filtering (MimeDel) handler so you don't have to deal with parts that are going to be removed anyway. I used to manage some Topica.com lists and they did it by enclosing the footer between funny lines like ---^--------------------------------------------- Top Posters mailing list at lusers.tld http://lusers.tld/mailman/listinfo/top-posters FAQ: (not needed since they won't read it) Search http://....... ---^--------------------------------------------- They figured that '---^---------------------------------------------' wouldn't ever appear in a post other than in their footer and they could recognize the line even if it were preceded by various quoting characters. So they just looked for that line and deleted it and everything up to and including the next one. This worked OK for plain text except it got their footer, but not those added by Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. so it was only partly effective. HTML was another story. It worked OK some of the time, but what they did was when they found the funny pattern, they deleted the entire line that contained it. This didn't work too well with MUAs that formatted HTML parts without any line breaks in the raw HTML source since it deleted the entire contents of the HTML part resulting in a 'blank' message. MSN Explorer 7.02 was the MUA that was responsible for this at that time, but there may be others. The moral is if you're going to programatically remove parts of the message body, be careful. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
