[Mailman-Users] Automatic rejection on message size?
Hello - I've scoured the wiki, FAQ, and mailing list archives but perhaps I'm not using the right keywords... I'm looking to have Mailman (2.1.9) automatically reject messages that exceed our pre-set size limitation. Why? We have a large number of users who cut/paste debug logs, code snippets, SVN output, and all manner of text into their messages. These are NOT attachments; they're text in the message body that is not MIME encoded. I manage two dozen or so lists, and every day I get at least 10 moderated messages in my to-be-moderated queues that are all there because of size overruns. This gets really tedious, since all I do is Reject them with a message about their post exceeding the size limit. I see no obvious way that I can set a list (or the whole system, for that matter) to auto-reject with a message based on size of the message. It would actually seem to me that this would be a desirable setting to have overall - is there a recipe for modifying the filter/ actions so that I can make this happen? I'm not a python wizard (or even neophyte) and I have very little understanding of the internals of Mailman at this point, so I'd kindly ask that any hints someone has to offer could be worded in a way that is approachable by a skilled *NIX admin but not a developer or Mailman wizard. :-) Thanks! JT --- John Todd email:jt...@digium.com Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic rejection on message size?
John Todd wrote:
I see no obvious way that I can set a list (or the whole system, for
that matter) to auto-reject with a message based on size of the
message. It would actually seem to me that this would be a desirable
setting to have overall - is there a recipe for modifying the filter/
actions so that I can make this happen? I'm not a python wizard (or
even neophyte) and I have very little understanding of the internals
of Mailman at this point, so I'd kindly ask that any hints someone has
to offer could be worded in a way that is approachable by a skilled
*NIX admin but not a developer or Mailman wizard. :-) Thanks!
The various miscellaneous holds including message size are only holds.
There is no setting to reject or discard messages exceeding the size
limit.
If you want to change this, you can do one of two things: You can
modify Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py to reject or discard, or you can add a
custom handler to do the rejection between Moderate and Hold (see
http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9).
Also, if you are going to do this and you also do content filtering, it
is probably a good idea to rearrange the pipeline to put MimeDel
before hold or your custom handler so you are rejecting on the content
filtered size. This can be accomplished by putting the following lines
(comments optional) in mm_cfg.py
#
# Put MimeDel ahead of Hold so too big is based on content filtered
# message.
#
GLOBAL_PIPELINE.remove('MimeDel')
GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold'), 'MimeDel')
Making the actions configurable is something that can be considered for
MM 3.
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[Mailman-Users] Automatic Rejection?
Is there a way to configure Mailman to discard/reject email sent by non-members? Thanks. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic Rejection?
Certainly there is. I don't know which version you are using but in 2.0.11 the 6 question on the Privacy configuration page is: Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only) (Details) Bill On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Pete Holsberg wrote: Is there a way to configure Mailman to discard/reject email sent by non-members? Thanks. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic Rejection?
You will find this option in the 2.1 beta. There are also some work-arounds (if you have root access to the server) that let you dump unauthorized email - without any notifications. If interested, you can find at least one in the FAQ Jon Carnes On Saturday 13 July 2002 09:36 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote: -Original Message- From: Bill Selmeier Certainly there is. I don't know which version you are using but in 2.0.11 the 6 question on the Privacy configuration page is: Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only) (Details) In all fairness, all that does is send the list admin an email. There really should be a Restrict posting privilege to list members and never notify anyone? option. my $.02 -Jim P. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
RE: [Mailman-Users] Automatic Rejection?
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Jim Popovitch wrote: -Original Message- From: Bill Selmeier Certainly there is. I don't know which version you are using but in 2.0.11 the 6 question on the Privacy configuration page is: Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only) (Details) In all fairness, all that does is send the list admin an email. There really should be a Restrict posting privilege to list members and never notify anyone? option. my $.02 That;s exactly what I was looking for. member_posting_only doesn't reject/discard the errant post; the list admin does! So I take it that Mailman does not have this? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
