Hi, Following on from my other question about 'courier clear all' not working for me, I have a more general query. Should I disable backscatter suppression when hosting a courier-mlm mailing list?
The reason I ask is that every time someone tries (unsuccessfully) to spam my mailing list, the rejection message seems to add it to the backscatter suppression blacklist, thereby preventing legitimate messages from being placed on the list. For example: At 15:47: sandra:/var# courier show all There is nothing on the blacklist (because I just cleared it). >From mail.log Jan 25 15:49:36 sandra courierd: started,id=001376F2.4B5D4D06.00004453,from=<[email protected]>,module=local,[email protected]!list!999!999!/home/virtual/xxxxxx.org/crew/!!,addr=<[email protected]> Jan 25 15:49:37 sandra courierlocal: id=001376F2.4B5D4D06.00004453,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>: You are not subscribed to this mailing list. Jan 25 15:49:37 sandra courierlocal: id=001376F2.4B5D4D06.00004453,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>,status: failure This is what courier-mlm is supposed to do; the list is set to allow subscriber posting only, so bouncing spam in this manner is good and normal. But, at 15:52: sandra:/var# courier show all [email protected] My list is now blacklisted and the actual users can no longer send to it. Is there any way of preventing this behaviour? I don't want to simply disable backscatter suppression because 99% of the time it does exactly what it is supposed to do and is very useful. Many thanks Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
