Reject is discard with notification
discard is basically ignoring the email and throwing it away.
HTH
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 3:02 PM Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> First of all, thank you so much to Amir, Legoktm, and everyone else
> involved in this migration. Top notch!
>
> I have another question about "Spam, etc". Old Mailman had a XXth century
> UI for processing spam with a gazillion options. Now we seem to have only
> three: "Accept, Reject, Discard". While "Accept" is clear... can someone
> explain the difference between Reject and Discard, please? Wiktionary alone
> didn't help. :)
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 12:05 AM effe iets anders <effeietsand...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> With the new mailman, I'm really excited to see global bans. Is there
>> already some workflow we're supposed to follow to mark spam? It would be
>> great if listadmins could mark stuff as spam and that would then trigger
>> global bans somehow if it happened multiple times. I know I can file a
>> ticket, but want to make sure we first arrive on a desirable solution
>> before we throw it into the dev's lap(s) :)
>>
>> Best,
>> Lodewijk
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:27 PM Kunal Mehta <lego...@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> In Mailman2 some lists would ban everyone and then manually add
>>> subscribers who should be on the list. In Mailman3 this is no longer
>>> possible, the ban list trumps everything. If an address is banned,
>>> messages from it will be silently discarded, regardless of whether
>>> they're subscribed or any other options.
>>>
>>> We have so far either removed these kinds of bans during imports or held
>>> off importing these lists yet.
>>>
>>> Please review your list's ban list ("Ban List" tab in Postorius) and
>>> remove any overly broad ones.
>>>
>>> As a sidenote, we now have the ability to enact global bans, so if
>>> there's a domain or pattern spamming across multiple lists, we can block
>>> it in one spot.
>>>
>>> I've also added this information to
>>> <
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Mailman3_migration#Review_bans
>>> >.
>>>
>>> -- Kunal
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