mailman-pop3d - POP3 interface to mailman's web interface
mailman-pop3d provides a POP3 interface to GNU Mailman for the purposes of deleting spam stuck in the administrative requests queue. If you manage a large Mailman mailing list, and are tired of using the web interface to discard spam, this script may be for you.
mailman-pop3d is typically invokved from /etc/inetd.conf, as:
pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody.nogroup /usr/local/bin/mailman-pop3d.pl mailman-pop3d.pl
The POP3 interfaces accepts the name of a Mailman list as the POP3 username, and the Mailman administrative password as the POP3 password. Once authenticated, a client is presented with a list of the messages currently stuck in the Mailman queue. When messages are deleted from the POP3 server, the corresponding message is discarded from the Mailman queue as spam.
Currently there is no method of approving messages to be forwarded to the list via the POP3 interface. Even so, mailman-pop3d is quite useful for purging large amounts of spam from a busy list's queue.
Arguably, the interface should be IMAP rather than POP3.
(c) Copyright 2004 Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net>
Portions of this program are based on Ry4an Brase's mailman-auto-reject.pl script, which has been placed in the public domain, and is available from <http://ry4an.org/unblog/msg00016.html>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
A copy of the GNU GPL is available as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 on Debian systems, or at <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
For updates, please see:
http://michael.toren.net/code/mailman-pop3d/