From: "Vikram Goyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:36:13 +1000
I maintain a medium sized mailing list (over 40000) to which a newsletter is sent out every few weeks. Till recently, I had no issues with this list, but after the last newsletter was sent out, I have started receiving "Bounce action notifications" by the truckload. Just as something else to consider... Do the bounce messages quote the newsletter or at least the subject line? Are you sure it is the newsletter that is bouncing? Do the email addresses returning a bounce match subscribers to your list? There is a new style of spam (well, not that new) that spoofs your return address and sends out massive amounts of messages to random people (it has a specific name I can't recall). Then you get all the bounces (because a percentage of people will always bounce). When this has happened to me, I typically get 3-5000 (yes, thousand) bounce messages over the course of a couple of days. My husband just got his first one two and it completely overwhelmed his account. It has nothing to do with running a mailing list, though you are more vunerable if your address is out there on the net. What you're describing sounds an awful lot like this. Especially since you have set up bounces for your list not to come to you. It sounds like the address that was spoofed was one used by MM, which would slow down the system for sure. Of course, I may be totally off here, but I wanted to throw it out there just in case. Cyndi ------------------------------------------------------ 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
