My mailing lists have been running fine on our mailman 2.1.7 server for the last year, however, I just implemented a filter for spam on one of our public lists to catch anything that spamassassin marks with a ***SPAM*** subject. The filter rule I imposed on this list is
subject: .*SPAM.* however, now it loops mail back to the list that match this filter rule, locking the list up (I get stale locks in the locks/ directory). The only way to recover from the endless loops is by removing the stale locks and then discarding all .pck's to the list with the discard command (otherwise, the web interface gets locked up due to too many messages). Here is the first bit of the moderator request email I get notifying me of pending requests to be dealt with (list name replaced by mylist). ------------------------------------------------ Pending posts: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Oct 20 22:54:04 2006 Subject: ***SPAM*** Sweet Cause: The message headers matched a filter rule From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Oct 20 22:54:08 2006 Subject: mylist post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] requires approval Cause: The message headers matched a filter rule From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Oct 20 22:54:16 2006 Subject: mylist post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] requires approval Cause: The message headers matched a filter rule From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Oct 20 22:54:20 2006 Subject: mylist post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] requires approval Cause: The message headers matched a filter rule ... ... ... ------------------------------------------------ Does anyone know what my be causing this, or where I can fix this? it seems as though the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is looping it right back to the original address, of which it gives "Cause: The message headers matched a filter rule", is there an easy way around this? since I know this must be common practice to filter via spam headers. Thanks for any help. -- Matthew Clarkson Netera Alliance ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
