[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Malcolm Austen
Ha, I started typing before Mark's message arrived here. I will add that yes, I know the trailing '.*' is not needed. I put it in somewhere back in time and have never bothered to remove it. Malcolm. --  Malcolm Austen On 12/06/2020 21:49:45, Malcolm Austen wrote: On 12/06/2020 17:13:02, Bern

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Malcolm Austen
On 12/06/2020 17:13:02, Bernie Cosell wrote: One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing list have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions: 1) is there a way to tem

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/12/20 10:03 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > It'd still be nice to be able to "ban" a particular subject As suggested in another reply, you can use header filters for this. Under Privacy options... -> Spam filters you can create a spam filter rule with a regexp something like ^subject:.*hot to

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Bernie Cosell
On 12 Jun 2020 at 12:40, Bernie Cosell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2020 at 9:28, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > > > On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of > > removing the alias > > > that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Richard Damon
On 6/12/20 11:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, > inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing > list > have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions: > > 1) is there

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Bernie Cosell
On 12 Jun 2020 at 9:28, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of > removing the alias > > that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a > "sender filter" > > that rejected everyone o

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Timothy Jasionowski
Would they consider moderation? They can let it pile up and reject or let things through that meet their objective. Timothy Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2020, at 12:12, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, > inappropriate,

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of removing the alias that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a "sender filter" that rejected everyone or something like that. You can put it on "emergency moder

[Mailman-Users] blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Bernie Cosell
One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing list have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions: 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of

[Mailman-Users] Re: Can I make mailman archive the bounce messages it has processed?

2020-06-12 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 6/11/2020 11:16 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 6/11/20 8:23 AM, Brian Carpenter wrote: The reason for the bounce will be contained in the outgoing SMTP logs. This is true only if the message is rejected upon delivery from Mailman's outgoing MTA. In some cases, the first hop MX will accept the