Spammed

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>
>>The Mailman lists I maintain are all subscriber posting only which (a) cuts
>>down a lot of spam attempts that get by spamassassin, and (b) generates a
>>fair number of moderator notices that I or other list maintainer have to
>>approve or delete.
>>
>This is a problem that has been mentioned here at work. Isn't there a
>way to configure the list manager so that mail from non-subscribers go
>to some place other than the mail waiting for approval? (I'm thinking
>/dev/null, but not necessarily.) The moderator would be able to browse
>the alien-originated mail at his own good time, or trash it, without
>interfering with the approving of mail from subscribers (assuming that
>the list is moderated).
>
>It seems absurd that the only choices are 1) letting everybody in or 2)
>letting everybody plague the list administrator.

I've seen far too many legitimate e-mails come in from non-subscriber
addresses to want to do this.  Often this is because malware like OutLook
does funny things with the From: headers, people are posting from home,
etc.  One of the options the list admin has when messages are posted by a
legitimate member from an address other than subscribed one is to tell
Mailman to always accept from that address.

This type of message will sit in the Mailman queue until an admin can do
something with it, and the sender receives a message saying that their
message is being held since they're not a subscriber.

Mailman also allows assigning moderator duties to one or more e-mail
accounts in addition to the administrator to spread the load and provide
better coverage.

Bill
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