Grant Taylor wrote: >On 12/18/08 09:19, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Note that this has nothing to do with mm-handler or other delevery to >> mailman method. Even with mm-handler, delivery to Mailman is still >> via the mail/mailman wrapper, so mm-handler has no way to manipulate >> the message's metadata which is initialized by the post script >> invoked by the wrapper. > >Ok. I said "mm-handler" as an idea, not specifically that script. >"Mm-handler" just happened to be what I use as a mailer in Sendmail so >that is what came to mind. > >Is there an option that can be passed to mail/mailman that does what I'm >asking for?
X has no way to manipulate the message's metadata which is initialized by the post script invoked by the wrapper. What this means is that without modifying Mailman in some way, the Approved: header is the only tool available. Now, the wrapper is pretty simple. When it is invoked via /path/to/wrapper post LIST all it does is set the effective group to 'mailman' (or whatever your Mailman group is), check that 'post' is a valid command, and invoke scripts/post with the rest of the arguments (i.e. LIST and whatever follows). So, if you could arrange for mm-handler or whatever to pipe the gated message to /path/to/wrapper post LIST fromusenet you could modify scripts/post to detect this additional argument and add fromusenet=1 to the metadata when it queues the message. Of course, this may be insecure depending on just how you arrange for the additional argument to be added since others besides the newsgroup may be able to invoke this. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
