[Mailman-Developers] Implicit destination default action RFE

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 19:42, Todd Green wrote:
> Ok, this is driving me bonkers.  We get a ton of spam that is sent to
> our lists as implicit destinations.  There is no way to automatically
> discard these messages under Mailman 2.1.1 (Python 2.2.2 on Solaris9)
> 
> As an RFE, could a feature be added along the lines of the default
> handler for posts from non-members so that you can select what do to
> with mail for implicit destinations?
> 
> i.e.  Under Privacy -> Recipient Filters
> 
>     Action to take for postings to implicit destinations for which no
>     explicit action is defined.  (Details for generic_implicit_action)
> 
>     [ ] Accept [ ] Hold [ ] Reject [ ] Discard 
> 
> Right now the there is no option and all mail is held.

I have plans for rewriting the Hold/Moderate workflow so that you could
do something like this much more easily.  It's probably a MM3.0 thing.

-Barry