[Savannah-hackers] Spam in CVS notifications

[Sylvain Beucler]

Here is a way to way to filter mail sent through lists.gnu.org that I
experimented on a test mailing-list. It uses Mailman spam filters:
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admin/list_name/privacy/spam
(where list_name is your mailing list name)

Filter 1:

Regexp =
Message-Id: +<address@hidden@lists\.gnu\.org>
From: address@hidden

Action = Accept


Filter2:

Regexp =
.*

Action = Discard


"From: address@hidden" is needed to avoid administrative
mails sent by Mailman to be caught by the filter. This is a rather
strange behavior, causes error mails to be sent and filtered in loop,
and I will report it to the Mailman people.

I was trying to make the first regexp include the fact that the
subject begins with "Changes to", but apparently Mailman matches the
header line by line, and does not allow complex rules such as 'AND'
for this kind of Allow-Deny filtering.

Well, eventually my address@hidden list rejected mail I sent and
accepted notifications from project 'testyten'. You should be able to
use it for the emacs lists. If there is still some problem, we can try
to work on making log_accum add custom fields to outgoing mail as you
previously suggested.

-- 
Sylvain