Re: my patch is in neverland :-)

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:27:36PM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I sent a 100k Status Update patch and its been
> > around 18 hours now and its still not showed up.
> > Is the moderator on strike? :))
>
> It probably was simply inadvertently deleted. I sift through an awful 
> lot of spam (>100 per day per list, down from 150-200 at the end of last 
> year), and it is certainly possible that I missed it.
>
> At one point, Jeremy was talking about implementing some Mailman spam 
> filtering, and I would sure like to see that happen.

I am using a handmade filter script on a list I moderate, which just bounces
anything with X-Spam: yes.

/etc/alias file entry:

<list>:                     "|dropspam /etc/mail/smrsh/wrapper post <list>"

/etc/mail/smrsh/wrapper is the path to the mailman wrapper script.

dropspam is:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$inheader = 1;
    $header = "";

while (<STDIN>) {
    	if ($inheader && /^$/) {
    		open(OUTPUT,"|" . join(" ",@ARGV)) || die "cannot open output: $!";
    		print OUTPUT $header;
    		print OUTPUT $_;
    		$inheader = 0;
    		next;
    	}
    	if (!$inheader) {
    		print OUTPUT $_;
    		next;
    	}
    	if (/^x-spam: yes$/i) {
    		exit 67;
    	}
    	$header .= $_;
    }
    close(OUTPUT);
    exit 0;

(It slurps in the header, if it does not like it, it exit 67; , otherwise
 it passes the header and the mail one.)

You could also adapt it to bounce everything with SpamScore >= 10 or similar.

Ciao, Marcus