Adam Morris writes: > I have seen on some mailman lists where messages sent to a list when > received by others have the word spam in the subject.
Mailman does not do this, unless the list admin sets the subject tag to something containing "spam". > Is this a mailman setting that can be changed No. Mailman does have optional (quite primitive) spam filtering built in, all it does if it catches something spammy is hold it or discard it, depending on settings. Stock Mailman will not edit the message just because it's spammy. This filtering is off by default IIRC, because we recommend using it only as a last resort. Filtering should be done in the MTA, which has access to much more effective filtering options. > or is it a setting either with the mailman hosting provider? This should be the responsibility of the final recipient, not the Mailman host. Unfortunately the Mailman host MTA cannot automatically tell the difference between a mailing list post and other local mail. Worse, it may not be able to communicate this to a filter. If it turns out to be the Mailman host, the MTA needs to be reconfigured. In the simplest case, the MTA just gets a list of list addresses and sends mail for them to Mailman after doing its standard processing including spam filtering. In this case, you need to do a lot of reconfiguring and I can't get into it here. In most cases, every action taken by the MTA can be configured conditional on the address. It is a very bad idea to disable spam-checking for a mailing list. What needs to be done is to configure the spam-checker to *not* alter the Subject, but only for Mailman posts. Of course they could disable marking the Subject with "spam" for all mail, but that would surely get very strong pushback from the host admin. On the other hand, if you're sure enough that something is spam to edit the Subject, you really shouldn't be distributing it to a mailing list at all. This is going to be specific to the MTA and to the spam checker. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
