On Sun, 18 May 2008, Bill Christensen wrote:
At 7:48 AM -0700 5/18/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Stefan Förster wrote:
* Khalil Abbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recieve over 2000 messages from mailman-bounces every day with
subject: Uncaught bounce notification.. and when opening any message
it's nothing but another Spam Ad about pills or shoes or other
stuff.. how can I stop these ADs from being sent to my Admin email?
it's becoming a real pain as it takes forever to download to the
inbox.. on the other hand, I don't want to disable the notification
because sometimes it might be a bounce that mailman couldn't detect
so I remove it manually from the list ..
If you do not wan't to disable those notifications in Mailman, the
easiest way seems to filter the messages bevor they are delivered to
mailman. This probably involves some configuration in your MTA - but
have you tried out the "Spam Filtering" options in your admin
webinterface?
Mailman's spam filters only apply to mail to the list and list-owner
addresses. They don't apply to mail to -bounces.
The remainder of Stefan's advice is good.
If the original mail was sent to the list address by a non-member and bounced
with an autoreply, would the spam filter have been applied? Is the filter
only applied after the message passes a member/non-member test?
My guess is that there's message rejection going on: the spam is coming to
the list address, bouncing out as being from non member addresses, and
bouncing back to the -bounce address. If that's the case, stop autoreplying
to non member mail - or teach your moderators to discard rather than reject.
Spam filtering before it gets to Mailman is still probably the best choice.
Unrelated, I auto-delete bounces these days as to deteremine which is
useful and which isn't, type-wise, takes me opening and examining the
email.
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