Advanced Mailing List Configuration

Content Filtering

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When a message is received by the list and you have enabled content filtering, messages are evaluated for attachment types. Attachments that do not fit those defined as allowed are stripped from incoming messages before posting to the list. After this initial filtering, any multipart attachments that are empty are removed. If the outer message is left empty after this filtering, then the whole message is discarded.

Content Filtering

Filter content of list traffic?:
Default is No. Setting this option to Yes enables you to define attachment types to limit or allow.
Remove attachments that do not match selected types:
Default types are already defined (multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative, and text/plain) which include most safe types of email attachments. Add any other types here you want your list to receive, but beware that adding other attachment types here may cause unwanted attachments to be delivered to your list.
Remove message attachments that have a matching filename extension:
Mailman will remove attachments with matching filename extensions from messages distributed to list subscribers. You must set filter of list traffic to Yes to enable this filter.
Remove message attachments that don't have a matching filename extension:
Mailman will remove attachments without matching filename extensions from messages distributed to list subscribers. You must set filter of list traffic to Yes to enable this filter.
 

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