Good day all:
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> From: "Chromatest J. Pantsmaker"
> To: mailman-users@python.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:46:14 PM
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?
> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it). I have
On 12/14/19 4:29 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
> Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users writes:
>
>> On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>> As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP,
>>> recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains
>>> that retry
Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users writes:
> On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP,
>> recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains
>> that retry successfully more than a few times.
>
> The bigger
On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP,
recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains
that retry successfully more than a few times.
The bigger senders are doing things now (more than ever) that they
"Stephen J. Turnbull" writes:
> Chromatest J. Pantsmaker writes:
>
> > I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those
> > test messages didn't pass. Maybe I goofed something along the way.
>
> If the GMail address used to send is the same as the address
> subscribed to
Chromatest J. Pantsmaker writes:
> I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those
> test messages didn't pass. Maybe I goofed something along the way.
If the GMail address used to send is the same as the address
subscribed to the test list, you won't see it because GMail
I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those test
messages didn't pass. Maybe I goofed something along the way.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:04 PM Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 12/13/19 7:23 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> > I think I'll look into this next. It seems that
On 12/13/19 7:23 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> I think I'll look into this next. It seems that the postgrey
> implementation that I followed from a previous email has stopped the spam,
> but it's also stopped all other mail also! doh!
If postgrey is working as it should, it will
I think I'll look into this next. It seems that the postgrey
implementation that I followed from a previous email has stopped the spam,
but it's also stopped all other mail also! doh!
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 6:40 PM Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it). I have a problem with
> spam. Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.
They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to
me, the
> list
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:16 AM Chromatest J. Pantsmaker <
chromat...@chromatest.net> wrote:
> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it). I have a problem with
> spam. Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week. They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists,
Yeah, I wanted to avoid that because non-subscribers often email the list
trying to contact the list admins or organization representatives instead.
I've tried the first link above up through step 4. Step 5 is adding an
additional filter to Spam Assassin and doesn't appear to be directly
On 12/13/2019 10:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
To discard so you don't get the messages (don't set it to reject or you
will be backscattering). It does say that you won't see messages that
should go to the list but the send used the wrong account.
That's another good/final option, drop
On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it). I have a problem with
> spam. Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week. They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me, the
> list owner
Thanks for the responses Carl and Bruce,
I've been getting about 20 per day. Some days more. The noise is way
higher than the signal level here. It's a low-used email list.
I'll try out filtering at the MTA level and see how it goes.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:34 AM Carl Zwanzig wrote:
>
On 12/12/2019 9:46 AM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it). I have a problem with
spam. Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.
(What's a acceptable level? I wouldn't spend many hours just to eliminate 3
spams a day.)
Is
I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it). I have a problem with
spam. Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week. They're
non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me, the
list owner which floods my inbox.
I'm looking at the page on how to use
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