[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

[Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Richard Barrett wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:34  pm, Andrew Watson wrote:
>
> > My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7
> > Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to:
> >
> > 	Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) -
> > yes
> >
> > Since the change, i have noticed no difference. I must still manually
> > discard every spam posting.
> > Is this option non-functional in 2.0.7?
> >
>
> Upgrading to MM 2.1.3 will give you the ability to have non-members
> postings automatically discarded (or held or rejected or accepted).
>

Alternatively, wipe out pending for select lists. Something like:

# useless cat award spews out only lists we wish to wipe
cat $PREFIX/clean-pending.dat | while read LISTNAME
do
  cp $PREFIX/request-template.db $PREFIX/lists/$LISTNAME/request.db
  rm $PREFIX/data/heldmsg-$LISTNAME-[+0-9]*.txt
done


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 David Stern                                            University of Maryland
                Institute for Advanced Computer Studies