Interestingly enough, both Sendmail and Postfix have the options you mentioned. In sendmail you would typically edit the /etc/mail/access file and then run "make".
The nice thing about that file is that you can reject from any ip or ip-range and provide a clear reject message as to why they are being rejected. I do this all the time (while waiting for a site to bet blasted via the RBL of my choice). BTW: I have found that SpamCop is a good way of busting new IP-ranges and getting them added quickly to the reject list. Jon Carnes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay S Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts > I agree with you on stopping spam prior to reaching the list(s), but some > times it takes a long time before the spammers IP address hits the RBL(s) > (I have 6 RBL entries in my postfix config - ORBIZ, RBL, DS etc.) > There is just no good reason NOT to have the option to auto reject admin > requests based on a simple set of paramaters - IP or DNS block. > The RBL list_reject function will catch up after a while, but until that time > I could be preemptive and take immediate action. ALSO (wish list) > A list of banned address prevented from posting a subscription request. > > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 05:41 pm, you wrote: > > Interesting. That wouldn't be too hard to write up... For my purposes I > > just toss anything that gets held and I like that setup, but I can see your > > point. > > > > Still the real solution here is to stop spam from entering your site > > period. You should look at using the RBL and a few other anti-spaming > > tools. These are all part of your MTA. And really that is where anti-spam > > measure really should be taken... > > > > Jon Carnes (just one man's opinion...) > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "WJCarpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:23 PM > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts > > > > > [[This is so irritating (after a while) that I can't believe it's not > > > a more popular gripe. Feel free to rub my nose in the obvious > > > solution.]] > > > > > > I help run a very low volume mailing list. Most days, there are no > > > postings. Sometimes weeks can go by with no postings. Every day, > > > though, we get lots of spam. On weekends, it's at least a couple > > > dozen a day. All of this spam gets trapped by the "members only" list > > > option. > > > > > > So far, so good. > > > > > > It's sort of tedious to go through the web interface to clear out > > > 50-100 spams. Click, scroll, click, scroll, ... fall asleep, click, > > > scroll, .... > > > > > > I wish one of these things were available: > > > > > > 1. A configuration setting that would automatically "reject" > > > non-member postings, just as if I had gone through the web interface > > > and selected "reject" for each message. (We don't want to > > > automatically "discard" non-member posts because we do get the > > > occasional legit non-member posting. That's the same reason we don't > > > run a spam filter that silently discards traffic.) > > > > > > -or- > > > > > > 2. A configuration setting that would automatically mark non-member > > > postings as "reject" instead of "defer" in the web interface. That > > > way, we'd just have to do one submit to clear out the crap and then > > > could easily see if there was something interesting in the queue. > > > > > > So, is there anything like either of those in some place I haven't > > > looked? > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 > > > 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3 > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
