Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/22/2018 05:50 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote: > On 22 Apr 2018 at 7:55, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Also, if those from: lines are in bounce_matching_headers, it only >> results in those messages being held and presumably the same end result >> is obtained with Privacy options... -> Sender filters

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
Thank you very much for the information below, Mr. Turnbull. Your last line pretty much says it all. I have much to learn yet, and what I am doing now, with the corrections I have received here, will serve in the meantime. Kenneth Gordon On 23 Apr 2018 at 0:54, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
On 22 Apr 2018 at 11:22, Robert Heller wrote: > If you have access to the SMTP server itself, getting qq.com blocked at that > point will help even more than blocking it in Mailman. I kinda don't think I do: I believe that is frontier.com. ;-) And Frontier uses Yahoo's mail server :-( Boo,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
On 22 Apr 2018 at 7:55, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/21/2018 10:46 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote: > > > > I have modified my settings in Privacy Options/Spam Filters thusly: > > > > ^Subject: =?utf-8?B? > > ^Subject:.*\?{4,} > > from: .*@qq.com > > from: .*ebdoor.com > > from: .*126.com > > from:

[Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kenneth G. Gordon writes: > One of my mailman mailing lists has been suddenly afflicted with > tons of Chinese spam. If you have access to the firewall in your mail system, or are friendly with its admin, the most efficient way to handle this is in the firewall by dropping all traffic from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:46:01 -0700 "Kenneth G. Gordon" wrote: > > Hello: > > One of my mailman mailing lists has been suddenly afflicted with tons of > Chinese spam. > > After reading an on-line discussion of this problem and how to handle it from > a thread >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/21/2018 10:46 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote: > > I have modified my settings in Privacy Options/Spam Filters thusly: > > ^Subject: =?utf-8?B? > ^Subject:.*\?{4,} > from: .*@qq.com > from: .*ebdoor.com > from: .*126.com > from: .*139.com > from: .*136.com > from: .*163.com > from: .*193.com

[Mailman-Users] Filtering Chinese spam.

2018-04-22 Thread Kenneth G. Gordon
Hello: One of my mailman mailing lists has been suddenly afflicted with tons of Chinese spam. After reading an on-line discussion of this problem and how to handle it from a thread posted to this list in July of 2016, here: