Recently I've noticed spammers have started spamming the "-request" address on a couple of mailing lists I host. I don't know if this is deliberate or just they've somehow picked up the -request addresses via address collection mechanisms.
Anyway the result is "The results of your email commands" mails going to people who never sent a message to the list with a copy of the original spam attached. From looking at the code I see that newer versions of mailman than the one I'm running don't include the original message in the response to help the backscatter problem (so I've hacked the code on the copy I've got to do the same). The lists I run aren't open to people subscribing themselves - they have to be added by the list administrator. To that end there's no need on my server for the "-request" auto responder to reply to non-members. So to my mind the following two options on a per-list basis would be useful to me: 1) Be able to configure the "-request" auto responder to not reply if there were no valid commands included in the message (the spammers aren't spamming with valid commands at the moment) 2) Be able to configure the "-request" auto responder to not reply to non-members There may be reasons why both those options are a bad idea or are unworkable, but I thought I'd punt them out there in case anyone else found them useful :). Regards, Matt ------------------------------------------------------ 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
