Hi mailman experts, My mailman list 'mylist' has non-member posts set to be rejected. This has done an excellent job of preventing spam in the past.
Recently, a spam message was successfully posted to mylist. The "From" field showed myl...@myserver.edu (i.e., the same address that one uses when posting *to* mylist). Looking in the list of subscribers, I don't see 'mylist' as a member. And typically posts do not come from the list; rather, they are just posted *to* the list *from* an individual subscriber's email address. Why aren't posts *from* myl...@myserver.edu being rejected, since myl...@myserver.edu is a non-member from the point of view of the list? I thought about putting From: myl...@myserver.edu in the spam filter, and setting the action to Hold; however, I don't want a message being sent to everyone on mylist every time a spam message gets held for moderator approval. I do, however, want these messages held, so I can inspect them. (Or at least a copy emailed to me, the list moderator, before the message is discarded.) Thanks, Donna ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
