[Mailman-Users] Preventing postings with no Subject:?

[Mark Sapiro]

Thomas Gramstad wrote:

>How can I prevent postings with no Subject: from being
>distributed via a Mailman mailing list?
>
>Ideally there would be a way to automatically reject
>the posting and return it to the sender and ask them
>to post it again with a Subject:-line.
>
>Or at least a way to have Subject:-less postings placed
>in the moderation queue.


Use Privacy options... -> Spam filters -> header_filter_rules

You want a first rule with regexps like

^Subject:\s*$
^Subject:[[(<{\s]*no subject[])>}\s]*$

and action Reject or Hold

Then a second rule to pass all the good subjects with regexp

^Subject:

and action Accept

Finally a third rule with regexp

.

and action Reject or Hold to catch all messages without a Subject:
header at all.

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