[Mailman-Users] Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users
Good afternoon all, I manage a few listservs (maintaining members and tending pending posts) and today I have received almost 80 separate "Uncaught bounce notification" emails for one of the lists. There are rarely any for this list and I would like to know if there is something I can do to

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question about content filtering in message body

2023-05-25 Thread Ethan Lewis
One popular approach for text filtering is to create a list of "bad words" or inappropriate terms and check if any of those words appear in the message body. Here's a high-level overview of how you can implement this: Define a list of inappropriate words or phrases that you want to filter. This

[Mailman-Users] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
What is the content of the emails you've received? I mean at least give us a sample. You can obfuscate email addresses if you want, but not the actual error. On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 5:10 PM Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users < mailman-users@python.org> wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > I manage

[Mailman-Users] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/24/2023 12:29 PM, Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users wrote: Good afternoon all, I manage a few listservs (maintaining members and tending pending posts) and today I have received almost 80 separate "Uncaught bounce notification" emails for one of the lists. There are rarely any for

[Mailman-Users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I think you need to change the list settings, hoping you have Admin rights: You need to change in Privacy options -> Sender Filters -> Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined = Discard. If you use 'Reject', you'll be sending back messages to spammers

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question about content filtering in message body

2023-05-25 Thread Scott High
Many thanks to all who replied on this! Once y'all pointed me in the right direction, I was able to go back up the chain a bit and find what I needed in SpamAssassin to block the particular spammer in question based on his Bitcoin. Thanks again! From: Ethan

[Mailman-Users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users
Hello, Here is more information: * We are on Mailman version 2.1.39 * I received over 300 emails from "Mailman-bounces" yesterday * They seem to have slowed down today * These are the type of spam emails I that are being received: ***SPAM*** Hi there my great

[Mailman-Users] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 5/24/23 10:29 AM, Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users wrote: Good afternoon all, I manage a few listservs (maintaining members and tending pending posts) and today I have received almost 80 separate "Uncaught bounce notification" emails for one of the lists. There are rarely any for this

[Mailman-Users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 5/25/23 9:55 AM, Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users wrote: Hello, Here is more information: * We are on Mailman version 2.1.39 * I received over 300 emails from "Mailman-bounces" yesterday * They seem to have slowed down today * These are the type of spam emails I that

[Mailman-Users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 5/25/23 10:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I think you need to change the list settings, hoping you have Admin rights: You need to change in Privacy options -> Sender Filters -> Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined = Discard. If you use