Re: mailman and spam

[Spencer Dawkins <spencer_dawkins@yahoo.com>]

Dear Dan,

Very nice - has anyone noticed how to auto-discard MIME-encoded
e-mail using mailman? I don't think I've seen a single posting
on TRIGTRAN that this wouldn't have handled...

Spencer

--- Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote:
> Please forward the message below to the moderators of your
> ietf.org-hosted
> mailing lists.
> 
> -d
> 
> -----
> 
> At <http://www.waider.ie/hacks/workshop/perl> I found a nice
> Perl script
> which automates deleting spam that is waiting for Mailman
> administrator
> approve/deny/reject.
> 
> To use it, both Perl and SpamAssassin need to be installed on
> your Unix box.
> To run it with ietf.org-hosted mailing lists, use the
> following syntax:
> 
>   perl
> despam.pl
> --url=https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/admindb/MAILINGLIST
> --password
> =XYZZY
> 
> The Perl script will obtain a SpamAssassin score for each
> queued message.
> If the score is above your SpamAssassin-configured threshold
> (default=5),
> the message is Denied.  If the score is below your threshold,
> the message is
> left for you to manually Approve/Deny.  The value of
> "required_hits" in
> ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs controls the threshold value.
> 
> The script is available from
> <http://www.waider.ie/hacks/workshop/perl/mailman.pl> and is
> also attached
> (my only change was to include the source URL in the
> mailman.pl file
> itself).
> 
> -Dan Wing
> 

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