Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM On Mailman

2013-03-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Herman wrote: >Why don't you just reject/discard all email unless it is from a subscriber? Discard is fine, but Reject is bad as it just causes backscatter to the innocent 3rd parties whose addresses are spoofed in the From: of the spam. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM On Mailman

2013-03-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Fred Atkinson wrote: > > Is there any way to set Mailman to just delete these messages rather > than hold them for approval? Set Privacy options... -> Sender filters -> generic_nonmember_action to Discard -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Califo

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM On Mailman

2013-03-30 Thread Odhiambo Washington
You just need to harden the spam filtering implementation on your SMTP server. Mailman will NOT do it for you. On 30 March 2013 16:55, Fred Atkinson wrote: > I have several lists that are receiving SPAM messages from multiple > sources. The lists do not forward them since I have it set n

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM On Mailman

2013-03-30 Thread Allan Herman
Why don't you just reject/discard all email unless it is from a subscriber? On 03-30-2013, at 9:55 AM, Fred Atkinson wrote: > I have several lists that are receiving SPAM messages from multiple > sources. The lists do not forward them since I have it set not to. > > But often I ha

[Mailman-Users] SPAM On Mailman

2013-03-30 Thread Fred Atkinson
I have several lists that are receiving SPAM messages from multiple sources. The lists do not forward them since I have it set not to. But often I have to go through the process of manually deleting them from the queue and I get messages telling me how many messages are pending ap