Greg Lindahl wrote: >Yahoo is delaying delivery of mail from my domain because I look like >I'm spamming them -- my machine sends a lot of email to non-existent >Yahoo users. Well, that's because I get a lot of incoming spam from >fake Yahoo accounts to my Mailman, and I have it configured to send >back a "you aren't a member" message. > >Is there any way to suppress "you aren't a member" only for Yahoo >senders? ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
Why not disable those notification messages completely and discard the incoming messages from nonmembers? That is what I do on my lists. My reasoning behind this is that if there is any mail from a nonmember, 99.99% of the time it's a spammer that has sent that message. By silently discarding it, I am not confirming for them that there is a live e-mail address there and (hopefully) reducing the number of attempts to spam the address in the future. The very few remaining posts after the spam are usually because somebody has e-mailed something with the list address as a recipient to a non-member and that non-member has done a reply-to-all. Either way, it's not something that I care about nor is it something that I believe needs an explanatory message sent back to the sender. Just my thoughts on the matter, I think it makes life simpler. Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
