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Is there a way that Mailman can remove certain headers before a message is
posted to a list? In particular, I want to remove the "Importance" header,
which some posters will set to "high" or "urgent" unnecessarily. Some MUAs
do all kinds of things users dislike for high-priority mails.

Note: I don't want to reject such posts automatically, b/c their content may
still be valuable, just not as urgent as the sender thinks.

Thanks,
Erez.

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  • Erez Zadok at Mar 21, 2003 at 8:49 pm
    Is there a way that Mailman can remove certain headers before a message is
    posted to a list? In particular, I want to remove the "Importance" header,
    which some posters will set to "high" or "urgent" unnecessarily. Some MUAs
    do all kinds of things users dislike for high-priority mails.

    Note: I don't want to reject such posts automatically, b/c their content may
    still be valuable, just not as urgent as the sender thinks.

    Thanks,
    Erez.
  • Will Yardley at Mar 24, 2003 at 8:42 am

    On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:

    Is there a way that Mailman can remove certain headers before a
    message is posted to a list? In particular, I want to remove the
    "Importance" header, which some posters will set to "high" or
    "urgent" unnecessarily. Some MUAs do all kinds of things users
    dislike for high-priority mails.

    Note: I don't want to reject such posts automatically, b/c their
    content may still be valuable, just not as urgent as the sender
    thinks.
    My guess is that the easiest way to do this would be using a simple Perl
    script, and pipe incoming messages through this script before they hit
    Mailman at all. You could also use Procmail / formail.

    AFAIK, there's no way to do this within Mailman itself.

    --
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    Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..."
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