Bill Christensen wrote: >At 7:48 AM -0700 5/18/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >>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?
For mail sent to the list posting address or the list-owner address, Mailman's header_filter_rules are applied before anything else. Mailman's bounce_matching_headers (a misnomer because it's actually a hold, not a bounce) are applied later to list posts (after member tests) and not at all to list-owner mail. >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. Those are good suggestions, but in the case of the OP, the issue is much simpler than that. Spam is sent directly to the list-bounces address. >Spam filtering before it gets to Mailman is still probably the best choice. Yes. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
