diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mailman3/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/mailman3/tasks/main.yaml
index d94c0560ec..b15ef26d50 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/mailman3/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mailman3/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -164,6 +164,11 @@
       - apache2-utils
     state: present
 
+- name: Add UA filter macro to apache config
+  # This is used in the mailman apache vhost.
+  include_role:
+    name: apache-ua-filter
+
 - name: Apache modules
   apache2_module:
     state: present
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman.vhost.j2 b/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman.vhost.j2
index 0182ecf718..ca3bd57c85 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman.vhost.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman.vhost.j2
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/{{ mailman_sites.0.listdomain }}-access.log combined
 
+  Use UserAgentFilter
+
   # Use mod rewrite to redirect as we want to preserve the FQDN for each
   # mm3 vhost.
   RewriteEngine On
@@ -45,6 +47,10 @@
     Require local
   </Location>
 
+  # This macro relies on mod rewrite rules so put it before any of the
+  # actual rewrites we want to perform.
+  Use UserAgentFilter
+
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^/robots.txt$ /var/www/robots/robots.txt [L]
   RewriteRule "/pipermail/(.*)" "/var/lib/mailman/web-data/mm2archives/%{HTTP_HOST}/public/$1"