Hi,

Ivan Fetch wrote:

Hello,

I'm wondering whether there is a way to have respond_to_post_requests set to yes (so that senders will be notified if their message is held due to posting to a members-only list, their message exceeds mailman's size limit, Etc), yet not send notifications to senders who's messages are held because they match a filter rule (privacy | spam ).

The help section of respond_to_post_requests says the following, which leads me to believe that it will not notify senders of messages which match spam filter rules: "Approval notices are sent when mail triggers certain of the limits except routine list moderation and spam filters, for which notices are not sent. This option overrides ever sending the notice."

Looks like this detail is outdated. I think new spam filters should be used to silently discard the known spams. Ivan, what version are you using? Newer version has more generic header_filter_rules to hold/reject/discard such messages.

Developers, I think I will remove 'spam filters' from the detailed description above but what is the 'routine list moderation'? I think list-wide moderation was replaced by per-member moderation, right?

However when I send a message to a list and it matches against a spam filter, I receive an email back notifying me that my message was held because a filter was matched. It would be nice to be able to avoid responding to messages which Mailman matches against the spam filters, as often the From address is forged anyhow...

IS there something I'm missing which will give me the behavior I'm looking for RE: spam filtering?

Thank you - Ivan Fetch.

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