[Mailman-Users] list-owner getting spammed

[Dennis Putnam]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply. I am using fetchmail to retrieve each mailbox. I
am familiar with spamassassin but I don't think I can integrate that
with fetchmail. I'm not sure what I could use.

On 9/30/2015 3:00 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was having this happen, but in my case there was a very easy way to
> get rid of it. Whoever set up that spam mailing list made a very big
> mistake. They chose to send their spam to the owner address *and* the
> address for posting to the list! Normally there is absolutely no valid
> reason for sending the same message to those two particular
> recipients, so I installed Milter-Greylist and set it up to block
> those messages at the SMTP level. Hasn't stopped the spammers, but at
> least my system doesn't have to process the spam.
>
> If something like this is going on in your case, that might be an
> option. If not, and if the spam has nothing in common, as far as I
> know there's nothing Mailman can do in this situation, you'll need to
> employ spam filtering before Mailman sees the mail.
>
> Jayson
>
> On 9/29/2015 7:32 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>> The list-owner of one of my lists is getting spammed. Is there an easy
>> way to block that? TIA.
>>
>>
>>
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