Emails sent directly to "bounce" address
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I have one list that has suddenly been receiving an increase in
bounces, and in looking at the bounce emails they appear to be spam
sent directly to the bounce address (ex. list1-
bounces@listdomain.org). From what I can see this email (with
attachments, sometimes virus/trojans) then gets sent as a bounce to
the admins. The admin for this list is receiving all of these emails,
with attachments, and is getting concerned about the volume of
infected attachments she's getting.
Is there any way to filter these emails sent to the bounce address so
that if they are spam they just get discarded. I do have filters set
up for emails sent to the list that filter them out, but since these
don't actually go to the list, but to the bounce address, they don't
appear to be run through that filter system.
Any recommendations on what to do about this, short of creating a new
list, would be appreciated.
An example of the header from an email is pasted below:
Thanks,
J.R. Constance
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J.R. Constance writes:
Is there any way to filter these emails sent to the bounce address so
that if they are spam they just get discarded.
Procmail, ClamAV, etc. You should be running such filters on all received mail. If you can't reconfigure the MTA to do this for some reason, the admin can usually run procmail through his/her .forward file.
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OK, I have looked at the FAQ and other resources and as technically
proficient as I like to think I am I cannot for the life of me figure
out how to configure this in my environment.
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to assist me with
figuring out how to set this up?
Apache Linux. Mailman 2.1.9.cp2 (cPanel 11.23.6)
If anyone has any experience with getting this set up in a cPanel
environment I'd appreciate any help you're willing to offer.
Thanks,
J.R.
J.R. Constance
On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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J.R. Constance wrote:
You want to run spamassassin and ClamAV or equivalents or possibly MailScanner on incoming mail. You set this up in the MTA (exim on cPanel ?). You possibly set this up in the MTA directly or by having the MTA invoke Procmail to deliver the mail and using Procmail recipes to scan the mail for spam/viruses.
This all happens before Mailman and is a cPanel/MTA question, not a Mailman question.
-- 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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J.R. Constance writes:
Is there any way to filter these emails sent to the bounce address so
that if they are spam they just get discarded.
Procmail, ClamAV, etc. You should be running such filters on all received mail. If you can't reconfigure the MTA to do this for some reason, the admin can usually run procmail through his/her .forward file.
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/17e0b85b260624b1ababb41ebe894a64.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
OK, I have looked at the FAQ and other resources and as technically
proficient as I like to think I am I cannot for the life of me figure
out how to configure this in my environment.
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to assist me with
figuring out how to set this up?
Apache Linux. Mailman 2.1.9.cp2 (cPanel 11.23.6)
If anyone has any experience with getting this set up in a cPanel
environment I'd appreciate any help you're willing to offer.
Thanks,
J.R.
J.R. Constance
On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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J.R. Constance wrote:
You want to run spamassassin and ClamAV or equivalents or possibly MailScanner on incoming mail. You set this up in the MTA (exim on cPanel ?). You possibly set this up in the MTA directly or by having the MTA invoke Procmail to deliver the mail and using Procmail recipes to scan the mail for spam/viruses.
This all happens before Mailman and is a cPanel/MTA question, not a Mailman question.
-- 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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