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First let me say that I realize that filtering is supposedly better done at the MTA level (and we are running spam assassin), but I don't have access to that level; I am only a moderator for several lists, and I would like to be able to do simple filtering without bothering the sys admin.
With discard_these_nonmembers, I use regular expressions such as: ^.*paypal\.com ^debora.* Those seem to work fine.
But I would like to be able to filter on subject lines, and suppose this would be done with header_filter_rules. About half of the spam that gets through are those recent ubiquitous spams with subject lines like "Linda wrote:" and "hi it's Linda". I tried the rules: ^subject:.*hi\sit ^subject:.*wrote: But they don't seem to work. I am not very familiar with regular expressions. Can someone point out something I am doing wrong?
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We have a list running 30,000+ list members.
Recently we have sent out several mails to this list, and it's still running.
However, we can't login to the admin webpage. After we input password, the page was loading as shown in the status bar, but after several minutes still can't show the admin page and finally it said "page can't be loaded".
How can we solve it?
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Stanley Chen wrote:
Recently we have sent out several mails to this list, and it's still running.
What is still running? Is Mailman still sending to the MTA?
Seems like the list may be locked. If so, and the lock is stale, you can manually remove the lock from Mailman's locks/ directory, but first be sure it isn't locked by some current process.
-- 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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We have a list running 30,000+ list members.
Recently we have sent out several mails to this list, and it's still running.
However, we can't login to the admin webpage. After we input password, the page was loading as shown in the status bar, but after several minutes still can't show the admin page and finally it said "page can't be loaded".
How can we solve it?
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Stanley Chen wrote:
Recently we have sent out several mails to this list, and it's still running.
What is still running? Is Mailman still sending to the MTA?
Seems like the list may be locked. If so, and the lock is stale, you can manually remove the lock from Mailman's locks/ directory, but first be sure it isn't locked by some current process.
-- 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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Duane Clark
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Mark Sapiro
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Patrick Bogen
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Stanley Chen