On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:16:53 -0800 (PST), Harshal wrote

Rich,

Thanks for your suggestions. I have a general spam filter for all the email addresses on that domain but I will double check to make sure that it also catches spam for the list addresses.

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You can be more draconian and only allow "help" to work for those already subscribed.

That is perfectly fine with me. Almost no one uses the 'help' feature and setting it to subscriber-only will help me lots. Now, how do I do this? I could not find any flag in rc.custom for this.

There isn't a predefined setting for this but it is easy to implement if you want to do that. Otherwise you can simply add a multigram check on the dist file for the sender in the rc.request file. For instance, in the base rc.request file is the rule for sending the help.txt and info.txt files:

:0 hw ${cc_requests:+c} | (formail -i"From: $listreq" -rtA"X-Loop: $listaddr"; \ cat help.txt info.txt 2>/dev/null ) | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT -t

you can make this read

:0 hw ${cc_requests:+c} * ? formail -X"From " -xFrom: -xReply-To: -xSender: -xResent-From: \ -xResent-Reply-To: -xResent-Sender: -xReturn-Path: | \ multigram -b1 -m -l$submit_threshold -L$domain \ -x$listaddr -x$listreq dist | (formail -i"From: $listreq" -rtA"X-Loop: $listaddr"; \ cat help.txt info.txt 2>/dev/null ) | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT -t

and then the files will be returned only if an address in the "dist" file matches a sending address.

If you want to make it more configurable then you can add a variable to the rc.custom file and check for it here (like the checking done for auto_help).

Rich