[Mailman-Users] Looping Moderator Approval Requests / Mailman&Exim

[Mike Peachey]

Mike Peachey wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> Mike Peachey wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>>> This is the problem. Exim is piping mail to listname-owner at example.com
>>>> to "| /path/to/mail/mailman/ post listname" and it should be piped to
>>>> "| /path/to/mail/mailman/ owner listname".
>>>>
>>> But surely, that would affect a single separate e-mail sent directly to 
>>> list-owner@ ? If I send to that address, delivery succeeds to the 
>>> correct recipients.
>>
>> OK. But then why does your email to listname-owner get properly
>> delivered to the owners, but Mailman's mail to listname-owner get
>> delivered to the list?
>>
> 
> I have discovered that the problem lies with the way SpamAssassin is 
> implemented, but I'm still not sure of the best way around it.
> 
> We use SpamAssassin via Exim's spamd_address directive via a unix 
> socket, so every single e-mail that is received by the mail server is 
> run through SpamAssassin before it's routed. We then use the Spam 
> Filters option in Mailman to filter based on the X-Spam_Bar: header.
> 
> The problem is that when Mailman sends a moderator request, it attaches 
> the moderated message. Mailman sends this message from it-bounces@ to 
> it-owner@ HOWEVER because the original spam message is attached, 
> SpamAssassin marks mailman's "moderator approval needed" message as spam 
> with the relevant headers.
> 
> When this e-mail to it-owner@ is received by Mailman, because it matches 
> the spam filter rules for the it@ list, it holds the message and sends 
> out another moderator request with both previous messages attached.
> 
> This then suggests that we have two options:
> 1. Find a way to stop mailman from attaching the held message to a 
> moderator approval request e-mail
> 2. Find a way to reconfigure Exim & SpamAssassin so that all messages 
> are passed through SpamAssasin, except those that are routed to Mailman, 
> and then use the info available for integrating mailman and SpamAssassin 
> to have Mailman call SpamAssassin itself, although this does seem like a 
> pretty inefficient way to deal with it because everything will still end 
> up going through spamd.
> 
> I heartily appreciate any comments on this as I'm a bit stuck with the 
> best way to proceed.

Or option 3. find a way to get Mailman to ignore the list Spam Filter 
settings for the -owner addresses.
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Kind Regards,

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