See https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg73654.html
That may help. On 04/20/21 13:12, Bader, Robert (Bob) wrote: > I think I know what is happening , but I want to make sure. A bunch of my > list admins are getting bounces like below? > > I think it is someone or probably a BOT, trying to subscribe to our lists, > But they are using a bad email address so it bounces to the admin. (Our lists > are set to confirm/approve for joining). I assume they are just trying to > join any lists that don’t have confirm/approve to see if they can then get > the users of the list, maybe, What else could they be trying to do? > > I have seen a couple of different bad emails addresses used, so I just can’t > ban this one, I am telling list admins to ignore them. But if they get worse > I think they can set this setting to “NO” > > Should Mailman send you, the list owner, any bounce messages that failed to > be detected by the bounce processor? Yes is recommended. > (Details for bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner) > > Which would stop these notifications? But it is recommended to leave it to > “yes”. > > > Any other options ideas? Am I on the right track? > > > Here is a bounce example with our list info stripped. > > *********************************** > Error: Invalid user address > > Error message below: > 550 - Requested action not taken: no such user here > > Message details: > Subject: confirm 174c7e02aa6603b72ba30e59c5e24c7fceebd826 > Sent date: Wed Apr 14 23:08:48 UTC 2021 > MAIL FROM: xxx-software-xxx-boun...@mailman.xxx.xxx > RCPT TO: 17323547...@vtext.com<mailto:17323547...@vtext.com> > From: > < XXX-software-XXX-request@ mailman.XXX.XXX > > > To: > <17323547...@vtext.com<mailto:17323547...@vtext.com>> > > Size: 11.3 KiB > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
