Re: [Savannah-help-public] commit mailinglists vs savannah project members

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:55:22PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Sulvain,
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 19:19 +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > > > I don't know for sure if this is done before or after the sender (and
> > > > recipient) filter rules, but in your case this apparently doesn't
> > > > matter, does it?
> > > 
> > > I am confused about how the various rules interact.
> > > What we need is for any email containing the header to pass through, and
> > > for anything else to be rejected (or even discarded). I don't
> > > immediately see how to set that up.
> > 
> > Check "Privacy options..."/"Spam filters"
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admin/YOURLIST/privacy/spam
> 
> I have seen those. But I am not sure what to fill in there to get the
> above result. If I set the 'header_filter_rules' to some magic header
> name and the action to Accept does that mean all other mail is silently
> discarded?

I think you can write such a rule, and then add another one that
Discards all other mails.

> Another question. There are a lot of emails hitting the lists written in
> non-English, often using using Asian charsets. Since all communication
> on the list is supposed to be in English it would be nice to be able to
> discard such posts. Is that possible?

I don't think Mailman provides this feature.

Anyway, apparently either this stopped, either the FSF system
administrators took care of the issue :)

-- 
Sylvain