Jewel Makda writes: > I am receiving spam from a listserv on my server and I am not even > subscribed to it. The spam is not getting through to the list members > which is a good thing. The name of the list is: maineattorneys-l and > sometimes the email will be to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uneasy rests the head of the boss. Users' mail is often very broken. It makes sense to reject or discard that mail when sent to the list, because if you do pass spam anywhere from one to hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting users will be annoyed by it. However, if the user has a problem, then there has to be a way for them to contact the "responsible party" to help get it solved. Determining whether a particular oddball mail is spam, or is from a user who has managed to mangle the expected format into something unrecognizable to Mailman, requires (human) intelligence. That's you. AFAIK Mailman makes no provision at all for filtering on those addresses. But (if you have administrative access to the mail server) you can put your own filters in at that level, or (with shell access to Mailman) you can add one either to the Mailman administrative pipeline or (I believe) customize the admin pipeline for lists where you're getting spam. ------------------------------------------------------ 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