Mark: Thank you for this information. The headers don't seem to be the problem, as they contain non-member emails. I don't have direct access to the mm_cfg.py file, and I can't find a user_envelope_sender in the web-based administration pages. So I haven't checked into that.
However, I do have one more fact that may be relevant. I just received another spam posting that got through. It and the previous one both have emails that begin with an underscore: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, as a possible quick fix, I've set the Spam filter rule 1 to the following from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe this will work? Skipper Mark Sapiro wrote: > Robert Boyd Skipper wrote: > >> I just had a fleck of spam sully my mailing list from an email address that >> is not among >> the members. How can this be? There were still about thirty other piece of >> spam >> awaiting administrative approval. How could this one have slipped through? >> Where would >> I start troubleshooting this? I know it's not just that it's spoofing the >> list, because >> the spam ended up in the online archives. > > > It is not always possible to tell after the fact, but here is some > info. Note that you can find the message in the > archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file, but this message > has already been processed by Mailman and some Headers may have been > changed from the incoming message. > > A message will be determined to be from a member if a members address > appears in any of the From:, Reply-To: or Sender: headers or is the > envelope sender which will be in the initial "From " line in the > listname.mbox file. > > If the message is not from a member, it will be accepted if the From: > address, or the Sender: address if there is one and if > USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is set to Yes in mm_cfg.py, is in or matches a > pattern in accept_these_nonmembers. > -- Robert Boyd Skipper P.O. Box 593 Wimberley, TX 78676 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
