I think you need to change the list settings, hoping you have Admin rights:
You need to change in Privacy options -> Sender Filters -> Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined = Discard. If you use 'Reject', you'll be sending back messages to spammers using non-deliverable addresses and that would lead to what you are seeing. I am just guessing that your list is set to 'Reject' instead of 'Discard'. On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 8:02 PM Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users < mailman-users@python.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Here is more information: > > * We are on Mailman version 2.1.39 > * I received over 300 emails from "Mailman-bounces" yesterday > * They seem to have slowed down today > * These are the type of spam emails I that are being received: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ***SPAM*** Hi there my great pen-friend, > SL > Smilesx Lonelyeo <s.nag...@nifty.com> > > To: > > * > ecdu...@hotmail.com > > Thu 5/25/2023 1:29 AM > > If there is a different Lsoft group I should be asking questions to, can > someone point me in the correct direction? Apologies for posting to the > wring group! > > Thank you!! > > > ________________________________ > From: Barry S. Finkel <bsfin...@att.net> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2023 12:28 PM > To: mailman-users@python.org <mailman-users@python.org> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Mailman-Users] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications > > > > This email has been received from outside of DOI - Use caution before > clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding. > > > > On 5/24/2023 12:29 PM, Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users wrote: > > Good afternoon all, > > > > I manage a few listservs (maintaining members and tending pending posts) > and today I have received almost 80 separate "Uncaught bounce notification" > emails for one of the lists. There are rarely any for this list and I would > like to know if there is something I can do to stop the spam. I have > received 5 more while typing this email. 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