Re:Disabling auto_help

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.
> 
> > 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