[Mailman-Users] Tip for finding in the source

[Mark Sapiro]

Oliver Schulze L.wrote:
>
>- Does msg.get('x-spam-flag') reads the email header or does it
>  reads a status/property that is from mailman?


This is an email.Message.Message method. it returns the value of an

X-Spam-Flag:

header in the message or None if there is no such header.


>- how do I create a new configuration option? Just tell what directory
>  to read ;) I'm planning adding this option:
>  send_bounced_email_to_owner = never | ifnotspam | always


See for example the patch attached to
<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=403066&group_id=103&atid=350103>.

The details are of course different, but the essential items are
illustrated:

- Provide a default value for the attribute in Defaults.py.

- Add the attribute and brief and detailed description to the
  appropriate Mailman/Gui/ module.

- Initialize the attribute for new lists in InitVars() in
  Mailman/MailList.py.

- Initialize the attribute for existing lists when they are updated
  in Mailman/Versions.py.

- Increment the DATA_FILE_VERSION in Mailman/Version.py so existing
  lists will be updated when they are accessed.

- Add the actual code to use the attribute and implement the function
  (In the case of the above patch, those changes are also in
  Mailman/MailList.py, but they could be anywhere.)

Note also, that X-Spam-Flag: is a Spamassassin specific header. If you
are going to try to make this general, you should use
header_filter_rules.

Also, before you do anything, look at Mailman 2.1.8 (a1 is currently
available, see
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2006-March/018621.html>).
Look at the changes in Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py having to do
with reject or hold of messages to the owner that match
header_filter_rules. If you just want to look at SpamDetect.py, see
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py?view=log>.


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