Hi Mark Thanks so much for your detailed and perceptive response. You got everything on the mark and I haven't tried it yet but I believe your regexp is what I'm looking for.
Many thanks for taking the time to respond to my query. Rebecca Mark Sapiro wrote: > Artabase wrote: > >> I searched archives and checked faq but couldn't find this, apologies if >> I'm keyword 'tarded this morning. >> >> Is it possible to strip the Sender Signature? >> > > > What is the sender signature? > > > >> Our lists are subscribed to some other lists, and we're having problems >> with members unsubscribing us from those lists instead of unsubbing from >> ours. >> > > > Do you mean that your list is subscribed to some other list, and the > other list adds a footer similar to the following: > > >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >> Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 >> Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 >> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/yourlist%40yourdomain >> > > > and then members of your list see that footer, follow the Unsubscribe > link, request unsubscription, and then receive the confirmation (sent > to your list) and confirm the unsubscribe? > > If that's what you mean, you have a couple of choices. Mailman has no > facility for removing that footer from the post to your list, but you > can add your own footer with a message something like > > DO NOT USE THE ABOVE LINK TO UNSUBSCRIBE! > To unsubscribe from this list, go to http://... or send a blank email > to yourlist-unsubscr...@yourdomain. > > Or you could add header_filter_rules to your list with regexps like > > ^subject:\s*confirm [0-9a-f]{32}\s*$ > ^from:.*-confirm\+[0-9a-f]{32}@ > > and an action of Discard to prevent the confirmations from reaching > your list. > > Of course someone with intent to unsubscribe your list from the remote > list could always request a password reminder from the remote list > which would be posted to your list, and then use the password to > unsubscribe without confirmation. > > You could add > > ^subject:\s*[...@]+@[^\s]+\s+mailing list reminder\s*$ > > to the regexps above to stop the password reminders too. > > > If the above is not the scenario that you are encountering, then please > be more specific about exactly what it is. > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org