[Mailman-Users] Attempt to block spam using X-Spam-Flag blocks allmessages to list

[Kelly Jones]

On 1/19/07, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
> I haven't looked at this to see if it is actually a possible cause, but
> the regexp box in header_filter_rules is a list of regexps one per
> line. If it contains an empty line or a 'blank' line, that might be a
> regexp that will match anything or any blank. Don't type a new-line
> after the regexp.

Thanks, Mark. I'm pretty sure there was a newline after the regexp.

In fact, I dumped the config before we wiped out the filter:

header_filter_rules = [('^x-spam-flag:.*yes\r\n\r\n', 3, False)]

That second "\r\n" shouldn't be there, should it? Ouch!

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