At Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:58:08 -0800 "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2...@frontier.com> wrote:
> > One of my forums has suddenly been inundated with posts to the list by > non-subscribers, > most of which seem to be coming from some homosexual list somewhere. > > These seem to be coming from every place in the world. > > I receive notices from Mailman every time I check my e-mail listing of 4 to a > dozen > non-subscribers attempting post to the forum, and I have to go to my admin > database and > remove and block each one. > > Is there some way to prevent these jerks from showing up in the database at > all? Check the message headers -- there might be common patterns. Look for Received: headers with "unknown" -- this is a giveaway that the messages are using spoofed From: headers. Also look at the From: address, sometimes these messages are coming from partitular domains. There are spam filters and sender filters. When the regexp matches, one option is to *silently* discard the message. *If* you have access to the inbound MTA's configuration, there are things there that can drop or bounce the messages at that point. > > Ken Gordon > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/heller%40deepsoft.com > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
