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[Dan Pritts <address@concealed>]

I don't believe there's any function in sympa to do this.

There are myriad ways to do something like this before the mail gets into sympa, though.  exactly how would depend on your mail environment, and if you need help you're more likely to get it in a forum for that mail server than for sympa.   

As a start, look in the alias file where sympa writes its alias.  you can insert your own program in a pipeline before the pipeline into sympa:

it probably looks something like this now:

lists-test-owner: " | /sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed"

you could just as easily do:

lists-test-owner: "| /blacklist/program/here | /sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed"

where your program would copy normal mail to stdout but would just exit if it matched the blocklist.  

danno

On May 25, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Pat Allen wrote:

Sorry, I forgot to mention that we're running Sympa 6.1.3.

THANKS for any help with this.
Pat

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From: "Pat Allen" <address@concealed>
To: "sympa-users" <address@concealed>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:26:05 PM
Subject: [sympa-users] Need to black list email address!

Hi there,

I have an email address that is sending a constant stream of SPAM to one of our lists. Unfortunately, he is not sending it directly to the list but to the list-request email address. I've added the email address to the blacklist.txt file but that doesn't seem to affect the list-request traffic. Can somebody suggest an option to block this address?

Thanks!
Pat

danno
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