Greg Lindahl wrote:
Yahoo is delaying delivery of mail from my domain because I look like I'm spamming them -- my machine sends a lot of email to non-existent Yahoo users. Well, that's because I get a lot of incoming spam from fake Yahoo accounts to my Mailman, and I have it configured to send back a "you aren't a member" message.
Is there any way to suppress "you aren't a member" only for Yahoo senders? ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
Why not disable those notification messages completely and discard the incoming messages from nonmembers?
That is what I do on my lists.
My reasoning behind this is that if there is any mail from a nonmember, 99.99% of the time it's a spammer that has sent that message. By silently discarding it, I am not confirming for them that there is a live e-mail address there and (hopefully) reducing the number of attempts to spam the address in the future. The very few remaining posts after the spam are usually because somebody has e-mailed something with the list address as a recipient to a non-member and that non-member has done a reply-to-all.
Either way, it's not something that I care about nor is it something that I believe needs an explanatory message sent back to the sender.
Just my thoughts on the matter, I think it makes life simpler.
Dragon
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