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May 2019

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Auto-discard emails
by Steven D'Aprano May 2, 2019

May 2, 2019

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my second question, if not apologies in advance. I run an announcement-only mailing list which has become the target of a lot of spam, so I've set unsubscribed emails to be immediately discarded. 99% of the discarded emails are spam, but unfortunately there is a very small number of ham emails that get sent to the list by non-members, which I need to be made aware of so I can contact them off-list. So I have turned on the option for discard messages to go to the list-admin (me), and I get sent the "Auto-discard notification" messages which includes enough information for me to tell at a glance whether I need to contect the sender. Great! This is the question which is definitely on-topic: am I doing it right, or is there a better way I haven't thought of? Now, the second part which may be off-topic... My mail server uses spamassassin, and nearly all of the auto-discard messages are flagged as spam and filtered into junk mailboxes which I consistently forget to check. Out of sight, out of mind. I've found a few ham messages from mailman in my spam folders, months after they were received. I tried to whitelist emails from the mailing list by editing /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and I added the line: whitelist_from_rcvd mailman-bounces@mydomain server.mydomain where I have my actual domain in place of "mydomain". I expected that this would mean spam assassin would whitelist emails from mailman-bounces, and not check them, but it seems to still be doing so: the auto-discard messages still get spam header lines and a spam score. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance. -- Steven

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