On April 14, 2017 9:56:22 AM PDT, Dang Tran wrote:
>
>a) Is it a good idea to block/filter out of messages that contain
>hyperlinks?
If you mean hyperlinks in general, I think it's a really bad idea.
If you mean specific hyperlinks, e.g., with known phishing addresses, there are
various
Hi all – it appears some our lists are getting spam more frequently with
messages that contain hyperlinks from different members (possibly from
compromised emails). Two questions please:
a) Is it a good idea to block/filter out of messages that contain
hyperlinks?
b) If so, how can
On 05/14/2013 12:43 PM, Christopher Adams wrote:
> On another note, what are thoughts about utilizing SpamAssasin or other
> spam software with Postfix and Mailman. It seems that a lot of the traffic
> that is going through the Mailman server is spam, quite a bit which is
> flagged and blocked by
On 10/12/2011 6:58 PM, William Yardley wrote:
> Does Mailman base64 decode the subject before applying a regex, and if
> so, can I use UTF-8 character names in the regex to match various
> types of 8-bit characters?
No. header filter rules regexps are matched against the raw headers. If
a header
Does Mailman base64 decode the subject before applying a regex, and if
so, can I use UTF-8 character names in the regex to match various
types of 8-bit characters?
Say, for example, that I want to block messages with "电话卡" somewhere
in the subject line.
Obviously, the actual raw Subject header wi
Brad Knowles writes:
> IMO, Mailman should not re-sign. If there was anything that would
> sign the outgoing messages, that would be the MTA and not Mailman.
But isn't that the problem? In the situation these methods are
designed for, the MTA is signing mail for a trusted party, presumably
a
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> SPF and DKIM solve 2 different parts of the problem of forged emails.
>> Neither provides complete coverage, together they work well.
>
> Please explain. AFAICR, neither works very well with mailing lists
> because they're both designed
Rob MacGregor writes:
> That would be a surprise to the SPF folks, and the steady progression
> of folks who're implementing it ;)
Over the years a lot of things have been surprises to the SPF folks.
I'm sorry for the misinformation, but the SPF promoters have been
guilty of "excessive optimism
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 15:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Geoff Shang writes:
>
> It is being done, although not via the MX for the reasons Larry Stone
> gives. What you're looking for is call "SPF" or "DKIM" (these are
> actually two different protocols, and I think with the standardization
>
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>Geoff Shang writes:
>
> > 2. One idea I came up with for rejecting spoofed mail is for the
> > receiving SMTP server to somehow check if the sending one is an MX for the
> > domain given in the From header. Are there any obvious problems with this
> > approach? Is
Geoff Shang writes:
> 2. One idea I came up with for rejecting spoofed mail is for the
> receiving SMTP server to somehow check if the sending one is an MX for the
> domain given in the From header. Are there any obvious problems with this
> approach? Is anyone actually doing this? It s
Larry Stone wrote:
>On 2/17/10 7:56 AM, Geoff Shang at ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:
>
>> 1. It's possible to use an IP address to block(at least temporarily)
>> these messages. If I put this IP address into a Mailman spam filter, will
>> this be checked *before* checking whether or not the perso
On 2/17/10 7:56 AM, Geoff Shang at ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:
> 1. It's possible to use an IP address to block(at least temporarily)
> these messages. If I put this IP address into a Mailman spam filter, will
> this be checked *before* checking whether or not the person is a member of
> the li
Hello,
I have two spam-related questions, one relevant to Mailman and one not.
Apologies for the one that isn't, but I hope you will endulge this query.
A person has been spoofing Email addresses on a number of
blindness-related Email lists this week. I won't go into the particulars
as it's
Rogers, David W wrote:
>I would like to eliminate my getting this email when someone sends a "spam"
>message to my list:
>
>
>Is it possible? I would really like these to be auto_discards.
>
Go to the list admin pages and select Privacy options...->Spam filters
and set action to discard.
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Mar
I would like to eliminate my getting this email when someone sends a "spam"
message to my list:
As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following
mailing list posting:
List:[EM
Thus spake Jeff Warnica:
+
+ What I would like is to have a simmilar setup if/when we migrate to
+ Mailman.. All our incomming mail is being scanned by SpamAssassin, so all
+ that mailman would need to do is check headers and hold for approval (or
+ discard as an option) messages with an
One would beleive, according to the front page of list.org, that mailman
has integrated spam filters. Reading through the documentation and a bit
of the source Im not quite sure how that is defined. Years ago I asked
what "hooks for external (web) archivers" meant and was told that you can
set up
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:36, Mike Noyes wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:47, Robin Rowe wrote:
> > Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted
> > mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power.
> >
> > Can anyone answer my question as asked? Is it p
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:47, Robin Rowe wrote:
> > Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses
> > SpamAssassin.
>
> Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted
> mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power.
>
> Can anyone answer
Tom,
> At the risk of garnering another "that's not exactly what I asked," a 2.1
> patch was posted to Sourceforge to allow this, a couple of months ago.
That's a great answer.
Thanks!
Robin
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Jon,
> > Can anyone answer my question as asked? Is it possible to use the
mailman
> > spam filtering capabilities on message bodies as well as headers?
> Let me speak more clearly to you: No.
No you can't answer, or no it can't be done? ;-)
Thanks anyway!
Robin
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--On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:47 PM -0800 Robin Rowe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anyone answer my question as asked? Is it possible to use the mailman
spam filtering capabilities on message bodies as well as headers?
At the risk of garnering another "that's not exactly what I asked," a 2
Let me speak more clearly to you: No.
- Original Message -
From: "Robin Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mailman users Mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filtering
> Jon,
>
&
Alex,
> If you automatically reject any email which isn't from list members then
> you'll probably find 99.9% of your SPAM go away.
Thanks, but I already do that.
Can anyone answer my question as asked? Is it possible to use the mailman
spam filtering capabilities on message bodies as well as
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Rowe wrote:
> Jon,
> > Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses
> > SpamAssassin.
>
> Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted
> mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power.
>
> Can anyone answer my
Jon,
> Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses
> SpamAssassin.
Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted
mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power.
Can anyone answer my question as asked? Is it possible to use the mailma
Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses
SpamAssassin.
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 12:00, Robin Rowe wrote:
> By setting bounce_matching_headers I have mailman trapping some messages
> with content likely to be spam. This works really well, and I can approve
> the false positives to
By setting bounce_matching_headers I have mailman trapping some messages
with content likely to be spam. This works really well, and I can approve
the false positives to go through. I would like to check not just headers
but the message body. There are a few phrases that would be good to catch
ther
My mailing list is already set up to hold posts from non-members but I'm
getting very fed up of having to manually reject spam. In particular, it's
Yahoo! addresses which are the biggest sinners. Has anyone written any
kind of Mailman add-on that will allow me to:
* automatically reject (rather t
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