All,
I run a medium sized announcement only mailing list (10,000+) using the
10-25-2002 build of courier and I received a spam complaint that had
been altered to reveal only the original message id. With the message id
in hand I ran grep on the maillog for that ID I found that every single
email sent out using majordomo had the same message id (over 10,000
messages with the same message id). Courier had given each message it's
own internal message id that appears only in the logs but propagated the
message id as set by the MUA to each outgoing email -- leaving no trace
of internal message id in the external email.
Going forward what is the best way to avoid this problem in the future
(short of speeding the DQ'ing of majordomo)??? Is there a configuration
setting that needs changing or some such? I will be switching to
CourierMLM or mailman soon -- after this recent wave of announcements.
Majordomo is run from a series of aliases:
majordomo: |/$path/majordomo/wrapper majordomo
Majordomo: majordomo
MAJORDOMO: majordomo
majordomo-owner: $me
Majordomo-owner: majordomo-owner
Majordomo-Owner: majordomo-owner
test: |/$path/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-outgoing
test-approval: $me
test-digest: test
test-digest-approval: $me
test-digest-outgoing: :include:/$path/majordomo/lists/test-digest
test-digest-approval: |/$path/majordomo/wrapper request-answer test-digest
test-outgoing: :include:/$path/majordomo/lists/test
test-owner: $me
test-request: |/$path/majordomo/wrapper request-answer test
P.S. If anyone is interested in the work around to locating the
complaint, check the headers for the time that your mail host handed off
the message to the first external server. Now one can use grep and match
the time to the mail host. This will reveal the recipient.
TIA
Sam Stern
Glen Burnie, MD, USA
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