How to stop bounce messages globally?
Hi,
Lately I have found that spammers send using random reply-to’s to my mailman server.
In response mailman sends a helpful “Your message awaits moderator approval”.
However, it is NDR as the user in the reply to is not in the target bounced mail server.
So … how can I globally stop bounces and moderator approval messages?
Thanks, Caesar.
Hi all
One of my users asked "how long does it take until you moderators either approve or discard my message?" (the message was held because the size exceeded the limit for the list), and he never saw the message in the list but also did not receive a notification about a rejection.
I checked the open moderation tasks and found that no message was listed there. A quick question to the others doing some moderation if I am away showed that the message was discarded few hours after it has been sent.
The message sent to the user says: "Entweder wird Ihre E-Mail in Kürze freigegeben und über die Liste verteilt, oder Sie erhalten eine Mitteilung über eine Ablehnung durch den Moderator." which can be understood in two ways: (a) you receive a message _from the moderator_ about his approval or discaring decision, or, (b) you receive a message about the moderator's approval or discaring decision (from the list software).
What is the standard procedure? I did not find a setting for this.
Using Mailman 2.1.23 on cPanel 60.0.28
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Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org
On 01/05/2017 02:05 PM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
It's misleading in English too.
The implication in the held message notification is that the message will be accepted or the user will receive notification, but there is intentionally no mechanism within Mailman to automatically notify the user of a discard action. If there were, it would be equivalent to reject.
In Mailman 2.1.23, you can follow the "Edit the public HTML pages and text files" link in the web admin UI and from there, follow the "User notice of held post" link and edit the message to be more clear.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 01/05/2017 01:40 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:
That's the good scenario. The bad scenario is called backscatter and is when the notice is deliverable to the innocent third party whose address was spoofed as the sender.
So … how can I globally stop bounces and moderator approval messages?
Set respond_to_post_requests to No on each list and set DEFAULT_RESPOND_TO_POST_REQUESTS = No in mm_cfg.py so that new lists get created with respond_to_post_requests = No.
Then Mailman won't send the “Your message awaits moderator approval” notices.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Hi all
One of my users asked "how long does it take until you moderators either approve or discard my message?" (the message was held because the size exceeded the limit for the list), and he never saw the message in the list but also did not receive a notification about a rejection.
I checked the open moderation tasks and found that no message was listed there. A quick question to the others doing some moderation if I am away showed that the message was discarded few hours after it has been sent.
The message sent to the user says: "Entweder wird Ihre E-Mail in Kürze freigegeben und über die Liste verteilt, oder Sie erhalten eine Mitteilung über eine Ablehnung durch den Moderator." which can be understood in two ways: (a) you receive a message _from the moderator_ about his approval or discaring decision, or, (b) you receive a message about the moderator's approval or discaring decision (from the list software).
What is the standard procedure? I did not find a setting for this.
Using Mailman 2.1.23 on cPanel 60.0.28
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org
On 01/05/2017 02:05 PM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
It's misleading in English too.
The implication in the held message notification is that the message will be accepted or the user will receive notification, but there is intentionally no mechanism within Mailman to automatically notify the user of a discard action. If there were, it would be equivalent to reject.
In Mailman 2.1.23, you can follow the "Edit the public HTML pages and text files" link in the web admin UI and from there, follow the "User notice of held post" link and edit the message to be more clear.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 01/05/2017 01:40 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote:
That's the good scenario. The bad scenario is called backscatter and is when the notice is deliverable to the innocent third party whose address was spoofed as the sender.
So … how can I globally stop bounces and moderator approval messages?
Set respond_to_post_requests to No on each list and set DEFAULT_RESPOND_TO_POST_REQUESTS = No in mm_cfg.py so that new lists get created with respond_to_post_requests = No.
Then Mailman won't send the “Your message awaits moderator approval” notices.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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