Re: how to block / discard automatically a specificemail from email ID
Mark Sapiro <mark <at> msapiro.net>
2010-08-03 21:10:43 GMT
Balaji Ramanathan wrote:
>
>Unfortunately, yes I am running 2.0.5 version.
>
>Upgrading is not under my control.
>
>Could you please let me know how to block/discard a specific address? and
>avoid approval notices for me?
>say - example <at> hotmail.com
As I said,
>> If you really mean 2.0.5, I don't think there's a way to reject/discard
>> as opposed to hold posts from a specific address.
In other words, Mailman 2.0 will hold a non-member post for approval,
but I think that's all you can do. Mailman 2.0 does not have flexible,
configurable ways to reject or discard messages based of the poster or
other message attributes.
If you can't upgrade, your only other choice, which you may not be able
to do either, is to edit the Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py module in
your Mailman 2.0 installation. This module contains the definition
KNOWN_SPAMMERS = []
If you change that to
KNOWN_SPAMMERS = [
('from', 'example <at> hotmail\.com'),
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