Martin Evans wrote: >Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> If I understand correctly what you are saying, spam is being sent to >> the list-request address with a From: header containing an innocent >> 3rd party address. The response from Mailman, which contains the >> original message, is sent to the innocent 3rd party. > >Actually that is not the case. It appears spam is sent to the request >address and it ends up being sent to an innocent 3rd party without any >mailman text at all. It is difficult for me to diagnose this as my mail >server has been blacklisted by so many places I've had to disable >mailmain completely. I saw lots of emails coming in to the request >address and caught some of the identical emails stuck on my outgoing >mail queue due to failure to send. What happened in between I cannot say >right now.
Do your MTA logs or the outgoing queue entries give any clues. I'd be interested in the timing of the messages to the -request address relative to the outgoing messages, and the envelope sender of the outgoing messages. I don't know of any way that Mailman would resend a message from the -request address without Mailman added text. >I don't really want to start mailman up again as we cannot >afford to be black listed since we do most of our business online and >after a weekend of not spamming people we may get off some of the black >lists. > >> Current Mailman through 2.1.11 will behave the same. These issues will >> be addressed in 2.2. >> >> In the mean time, the best solution is effective spam filtering ahead >> of Mailman. Barring that, you can disable the -request and perhaps >> other support addresses and force everyone to use the web for >> subscribing, confirming, etc. >> > >That is a reasonable alternative I'll look in to. Also, see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/NQAy>. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
