[Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

[Jay S Curtis]

I agree with you on stopping spam prior to reaching the list(s),  but some 
times it takes a long time before the spammers IP address hits the RBL(s)
(I have 6 RBL entries in my postfix config - ORBIZ, RBL, DS etc.)
There is just no good reason NOT to have the option to auto reject admin 
requests based on a simple set of paramaters - IP or DNS block.
The RBL list_reject function will catch up after a while, but until that time
I could be preemptive and take immediate action. ALSO (wish list)
A list of banned address prevented from posting a subscription request.

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 05:41 pm, you wrote:
> Interesting.  That wouldn't be too hard to write up...  For my purposes I
> just toss anything that gets held and I like that setup, but I can see your
> point.
>
> Still the real solution here is to stop spam from entering your site
> period. You should look at using the RBL and a few other anti-spaming
> tools.  These are all part of your MTA.  And really that is where anti-spam
> measure really should be taken...
>
> Jon Carnes (just one man's opinion...)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "WJCarpenter" <bill-mailman at carpenter.ORG>
> To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:23 PM
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts
>
> > [[This is so irritating (after a while) that I can't believe it's not
> > a more popular gripe.  Feel free to rub my nose in the obvious
> > solution.]]
> >
> > I help run a very low volume mailing list.  Most days, there are no
> > postings.  Sometimes weeks can go by with no postings.  Every day,
> > though, we get lots of spam.  On weekends, it's at least a couple
> > dozen a day.  All of this spam gets trapped by the "members only" list
> > option.
> >
> > So far, so good.
> >
> > It's sort of tedious to go through the web interface to clear out
> > 50-100 spams.  Click, scroll, click, scroll, ... fall asleep, click,
> > scroll, ....
> >
> > I wish one of these things were available:
> >
> > 1.  A configuration setting that would automatically "reject"
> > non-member postings, just as if I had gone through the web interface
> > and selected "reject" for each message.  (We don't want to
> > automatically "discard" non-member posts because we do get the
> > occasional legit non-member posting.  That's the same reason we don't
> > run a spam filter that silently discards traffic.)
> >
> > -or-
> >
> > 2.  A configuration setting that would automatically mark non-member
> > postings as "reject" instead of "defer" in the web interface.  That
> > way, we'd just have to do one submit to clear out the crap and then
> > could easily see if there was something interesting in the queue.
> >
> > So, is there anything like either of those in some place I haven't
> > looked?
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