Let me try this again ;-)
Folks
Is there an option to have mailman ignore anonymous posts and not even acknowledge the post. Just let it go to /dev/null ??
I have looked and see nothing in simple english..
Right now, I am seriously blacklisted by the anonymous posts being sent by spammers and mailman trying to send back a message "your post is not allowed"
Maybe I just need to rename them ??
This is getting to the point of "The Spammers win, I loose"
Thanks
Dave
Dave Foran Internet ONLY:dave@hamnet.org Cruise Missile Coordinates 41.36.46N 81.25.53W
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:09:07 -0400 "Dave Foran" dave@hamnet.org wrote:
Folks
Is there an option to have mailman ignore anonymous posts and not even acknowledge the post. Just let it go to /dev/null ??
I have looked and see nothing in simple english..
Right now, I am seriously blacklisted by the anonymous posts being sent by spammers and mailman trying to send back a message "your post is not allowed"
Maybe I just need to rename them ??
This is getting to the point of "The Spammers win, I loose"
Thanks
Dave
Have you looked at the list administrative interface?
Just to name a few --
General Options ... Send mail to poster when their posting is held for approval?
Privacy options ... What steps are required for subscription? Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined. Filter rules to match against the headers of a message. Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp.
-- Raquel
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. --Senator Robert F. Kennedy, University of Capetown, South Africa,
On Mar 25, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Dave Foran wrote:
Is there an option to have mailman ignore anonymous posts and not even acknowledge the post. Just let it go to /dev/null ??
There is probably some way to do that, but I don't know it. But I'm
not sure that that is the right approach in the first place, since
once your server accepts some incoming mail it has certain
responsibilities.
Right now, I am seriously blacklisted by the anonymous posts being
sent by spammers and mailman trying to send back a message "your post is not allowed"
You should be doing your spam blocking earlier. Are you using
DNSbl's and or filters to reject incoming spam? If you reject most
of the spam at SMTP time, then mailman will never see the spam in the
first place and you won't have to generate any bounces.
-j
Dave Foran Internet
ONLY:dave@hamnet.org Cruise Missile Coordinates 41.36.46N
81.25.53W
Not enough information. We need altitude as well for setting the
target of a missile.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Dave Foran wrote:
Is there an option to have mailman ignore anonymous posts and not even acknowledge the post. Just let it go to /dev/null ??
I have looked and see nothing in simple english..
Right now, I am seriously blacklisted by the anonymous posts being sent by spammers and mailman trying to send back a message "your post is not allowed"
What is an 'anonymous' post?
I replied to you on Tuesday. Unfortunately, I neglected to copy the list on my first reply.
It seems like right now you have Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action set to Reject. Set it to Discard.
In any case, the "your post is not allowed" message is due to some Reject action which if changed to Discard will cause the post to be silently ignored.
However, as pointed out in other replies, filtering in the MTA ahead of Mailman is a better approach.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Greetings again
As I am totally locked out from send from my own system until time moves on ;-)
Paul Tomblin, replied to me earlier today and yes, all lists were set to reject, and since have been set to discard
A good friend gave me his "sorbs" lines for my sendmail.mc and I added them, but saw nothing
So, in my testing, I removed all the dnl in the lines and viola, I am rejecting tons of crap.
SO I think, I got things fixed and I hope this is the last of the issues.
My THANKS, to the way questions get answered in a HURRY
THANKS, again
Dave
Dave Foran wrote:
Is there an option to have mailman ignore anonymous posts and not even acknowledge the post. Just let it go to /dev/null ??
I have looked and see nothing in simple english..
Right now, I am seriously blacklisted by the anonymous posts being sent by spammers and mailman trying to send back a message "your post is not allowed"
What is an 'anonymous' post?
I replied to you on Tuesday. Unfortunately, I neglected to copy the list on my first reply.
It seems like right now you have Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action set to Reject. Set it to Discard.
In any case, the "your post is not allowed" message is due to some Reject action which if changed to Discard will cause the post to be silently ignored.
However, as pointed out in other replies, filtering in the MTA ahead of Mailman is a better approach.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+dave=hamnet.org@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+dave=hamnet.org@python.org]On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:38 To: Mailman-Users@Python. Org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Let me try this again ;-)
What is an 'anonymous' post?
As far as I am concerned some robot that has screen scraped an address and sent a message to a list to spam it
Dave
I replied to you on Tuesday. Unfortunately, I neglected to copy the list on my first reply.
It seems like right now you have Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action set to Reject. Set it to Discard.
In any case, the "your post is not allowed" message is due to some Reject action which if changed to Discard will cause the post to be silently ignored.
However, as pointed out in other replies, filtering in the MTA ahead of Mailman is a better approach.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/dave%40hamnet.org
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Dave Foran wrote:
What is an 'anonymous' post?
As far as I am concerned some robot that has screen scraped an address and sent a message to a list to spam it
Yes, but what characteristics does this message have that would allow Mailman to recognize it as such and treat it differently from a message to the list from a human who hapens to be a list member posting from the wrong address or a non-member sending a 'legitimate' message?
In other words, you may not want to discard all non-member posts. It may be better if you can filter the spam ahead of Mailman and then hold the remaining non-member posts for moderator action.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
You are probably correct
But until I get this spa, issue resolved
EVERYTHING goes ;-)
Very frustrating
I am still getting some junk, but I think it may be some goof send a message to everyone
Dave
Dave Foran wrote:
What is an 'anonymous' post?
As far as I am concerned some robot that has screen scraped an address
and
sent a message to a list to spam it
Yes, but what characteristics does this message have that would allow Mailman to recognize it as such and treat it differently from a message to the list from a human who hapens to be a list member posting from the wrong address or a non-member sending a 'legitimate' message?
In other words, you may not want to discard all non-member posts. It may be better if you can filter the spam ahead of Mailman and then hold the remaining non-member posts for moderator action.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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