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How to use taboo_* options for Majordomo 1

From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Wayne Smith <wayne_-at-_wayneon.ca>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:17:29 -0500 (EST)

Wayne,

 I'm copying the FLORA helpdesk with this letter so that this information 
can be archived there.
  http://www.flora.org/flora/help/

  If you have more questions please consider subscribing to that list so
that others can help and benefit from our discussion.


List,
  Wayne was asking how to set up Majordomo so that messages from certain 
people or with other attributes would be bounced to the moderator rather 
than going to the list.  The options in the config file for that are the 
taboo_* options.


  All the detailed documentation for Majordomo is at
http://www.flora.org/flora/help/listmanagers.shtml specifically
http://www.flora.org/flora/help/list-owner-info.txt

What you do first is do a:
    config <list> <password>
        Retrieves a self-documenting configuration file for
        the list <list>.  The <password> can be the password
        contained in the file <list>.passwd or the
        admin_password in the configuration file.

  You then take the resulting text message, save to disk and edit the
options you want to edit.

  For instance, I use the following to cause file attachments to be
bounced to me:

        # taboo_body           [regexp_array] (undef) <resend>
        # If any line of the body matches one of these regexps, then the
        # message will be bounced for review.
taboo_body          <<  END
/^Content-Type: application\//i
/^Content-Type: image\//i
/^Content-Type: text\/html/i
END
 
        # taboo_headers        [regexp_array] (undef) <resend>
        # If any of the headers matches one of these regexps, then the
        # message will be bounced for review.
taboo_headers       <<  END
/^Content\-Type\:\s+application/i
/^Content\-Type\:\s+text\/html/i
/^Content\-Type\:\s+image\//i
/^Content\-Disposition\:\s+attachment/i
/^Content\-Transfer\-Encoding\:\s+base64/i
/^Content\-Transfer\-Encoding\:\s+quoted\-printable/i
/^Content\-Type\:\s+multipart/i
/^Disposition\-Notification\-To/i
/^X\-MS-Attachment\:\s+winmail.dat/i
END



  You can have patterns that would match a specific email address in the 
From: line or any other pattern that you wish.


  Pattern matching is done using PERL regular expressions, which 
are documented at:
  http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlrequick.html



  Once you are done with the options you use the newconfig command to send
your config file (the entire config file, not just the options you
changed) back to Majordomo.  Remember that it can *NOT* be a file
attachment and must be inline in a plain text message.  Do not let your
software wrap long lines as that too can cause you problems for your
config file.

    newconfig <list> <password>
   	Validates and installs a new configuration file.  It reads
	everything after the "newconfig" command to end-of-message or
	the word "EOF" on a line by itself as the new info for the
	list.  The config file is expected to be a complete config
	file as returned by "config".  Incremental changing of the
	config file is not yet supported.  As soon as the config file
	is validated and installed its settings are available for
	use. This is useful to remember if you have multiple commands
	in your mail message since they will be subject to the
	settings of the new config file.  If there is an error in the
	config file (incorrect value...), the config file will not be
	accepted and the error message identifying the problem line(s)
	will be returned to the sender.  Note that only the error
	messages are returned to the sender not the entire config
	file, so it would be a good idea to keep a copy of your
	outgoing email message.


  Hope that helps.  If there are further questions please send them to me 
and the helpdesk so we can move forward.

> Wayne
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