[Mailman-Users] Bounce processing

2019-01-19 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
Over the past several weeks, I have received many reports from Mailman concerning too many bounces from certain subscribers who are normally very active on one of my forums. All of these "Bounce Action Notification"'s appear to be coming from only a very few ISPs, the big one being AOL, altho

[Mailman-Users] Digest mode.

2019-01-19 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
One of my subscribers is complaining that he cannot activate the digest mode for his account. I can find nothing wrong in the admin database. Where should I look for this problem? Ken Gordon -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nonsubscribers attacking one of my lists.

2019-01-19 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
On 19 Jan 2019 at 17:08, Richard Damon wrote: > Set the action on Sender Filters for messages from non-members to > discard, instead of hold. I had to do that a long time ago (Don“t > reject or you will be generating back-scatter) OK. I'll try that. I DO get messages from non-subscribers once

[Mailman-Users] Nonsubscribers attacking one of my lists.

2019-01-19 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
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 doz

Re: [Mailman-Users] Still having trouble with an email filter vis-a-vis Chinese crap.

2018-05-05 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
On 5 May 2018 at 13:20, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > Subject =?utf-8?B? > > Do you really mean it doesn't contain the ':'? I am reasonably sure that SOME do not, possibly those few which are getting through, but since you brought that up (although I DID suspect as much), I have not been able to ch

[Mailman-Users] Still having trouble with an email filter vis-a-vis Chinese crap.

2018-05-05 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
In my mailman Privacy options/Spam filters/Regexps my expression: ^Subject: =\?utf-8\?B\? does NOT appear to work to discard all posts with that expression in the subject line. That traffic always contains this: Subject =?utf-8?B? before all the following garbage. Sometimes that expression b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
: > Kenneth G. Gordon writes: > > > One of my mailman mailing lists has been suddenly afflicted with > > tons of Chinese spam. > > If you have access to the firewall in your mail system, or are > friendly with its admin, the most efficient way to handle this is in >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
On 22 Apr 2018 at 11:22, Robert Heller wrote: > If you have access to the SMTP server itself, getting qq.com blocked at that > point will help even more than blocking it in Mailman. I kinda don't think I do: I believe that is frontier.com. ;-) And Frontier uses Yahoo's mail server :-( Boo, his

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
On 22 Apr 2018 at 7:55, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/21/2018 10:46 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote: > > > > I have modified my settings in Privacy Options/Spam Filters thusly: > > > > ^Subject: =?utf-8?B? > > ^Subject:.*\?{4,} > > from: .*@qq.com > > fr

[Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
2016, I have, today, added that second line above. Can someone here tell me what I have NOT done correctly with that first line which makes it NOT work as desired? Kenneth G. Gordon (Age 75) A Tired Old SYSAD. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antiviru