[Mailman-Users] procmail filtering of passwd reminders

Scott Russell lnxgeek at us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 14 18:27:34 CET 2001


On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:57:12PM -0500, Scott Russell wrote:
> Greets.
> 
> For mailman 2.x mailing lists, why do you all use in your procmail filters
> to prevent the Mailman passwd reminders from showing up in list archives or
> nntp mail gateways?
> 
> I want to gateway several Mailman lists to my innd server. Obviously it
> wouldn't be good to have the monthly passwd reminders that Mailman sends out
> to show up in the newsgroups. :) 

Here's what I came up with. I'm not sure it's sane as it's untested but it
might just work. If all three rules match the Mailman passwd reminder should
be dumped into the users mailman-passwords mailbox.

:0:
* ^X-Mailman-Version:.*
* ^From.*-owner\@
* ^Subject:.*mailing list memberships reminder$
mailman-passwds

-- 
Regards,
 Scott Russell (lnxgeek at us.ibm.com)
 Linux Technology Center, System Admin, RHCE.
 T/L 441-9289 / External 919-543-9289
 http://bzimage.raleigh.ibm.com/webcam





More information about the Mailman-Users mailing list