Re: [Mailman-Users] investigating attack-like "mailfailures"

2005-03-14 Thread Nick Levine
Brad, It's not Mailman trying to resend the message. It's your MTA, to which Mailman handed over the message. Aha. However, the MTA-specific aspects of this process are something you should pursue on a mailing list or newsgroup that is appropriate to your MTA (e.g., pos

Re: [Mailman-Users] investigating attack-like "mailfailures"

2005-03-14 Thread Nick Levine
Mark / Brad, Many thanks for your mails. I have tracked down (most of) what's going on. vette:48:Mar 12 01:20:18 2005 (2549) alu-board-only post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] held, message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Post by non-member to a members-only list Because the sender was spoofed

[Mailman-Users] investigating attack-like "mail failures"

2005-03-13 Thread Nick Levine
Hi. I've noticed a number of attack-like "mail failures". The rate at which we see them comes and goes at different times of the day; when they're active they pass through at the rate of 1 or 2 per minute. Here's an example, for the list [EMAIL PROTECTED] (we've seen this for other alu.org lists