My question is simply why we are getting spams from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Kinson
Mark Sapiro wrote: > Kinson Liu wrote: > >> The product of my company uses mailman and we have been receiving spams >> > >from time to time. The spams are not directly from spammers, but > >> mailman-bounces and other valid list with -bounces at the end of the >> list name. We've been looking through bounce processing on the admin >> part, but it doesn't seem to be the solution of this question since it >> is only for disabling email accounts. Spam filter under privacy option >> seems the right place, but the two textareas do not make too much sense >> to me. Please help. One of the sample is pasted below. >> > > > I'm sorry. I do not understand what your problem is. > > > >> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *dacey >> aseria >> *Sent:* Monday, June 12, 2006 7:38 AM >> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> *Subject:* I'm not a follower... I'm a leader with the same idea >> > > > This looks like a Microsoft Outlook rendering of a message from the > 'mailman' list posted to the list by "dacey aseria". This is the way > Outlook would show a message with > > From: dacey aseria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This would be the Sender in a message from the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. See > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp> > for more info. The Sender is set to the list-bounces address to help > get actual bounces returned to the proper place. > > Is dacey aseria a list member? It looks like someone has spammed your > list by spoofing the address of a list member. There is no good way to > deal with this in Mailman although Privacy option->Spam filters may > help. The real solution is to do spam filtering in the incoming MTA > before the mail ever gets to Mailman. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Kinson Liu* | Software Development Engineer | RealNetworks, Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 206.892.6177 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
