On Mon, Mar 15, 2004, Arthur Gibbs wrote: >Using Mailman 2.1.3, we have had problems with virus-generated messages with >spoofed senders getting through to a one-way list. > >The only 'solution' I have found is to to disallow any non-moderated users >or administrators. This forces all messages, even from list admins, to be >moderated. > >Under Privacy options: [Recipient filters], we set "Ceiling on acceptable >number of recipients for a posting" to 1. > >And also turned on 'Emergency moderation of all list traffic is enabled' in >General Options. > >However this is not ideal. Back in the dark ages I used Majodomo. As >primtive as that program was, these virus messages would not be getting >through. Reason? The moderated users had to include a password with each >post. Could that password type feature be added? > >A virus might forge the 'form' and the envelope. But it is aweful hard to >forge a good password that also matches that from. > >Any thoughts?
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