[Mailman-Users] bouncing unwanted guests, et al
Here's my dilemma. I get tons of SPAM/PHISHING attacks at my email inbox. I am tired of deleting so much crap every day. I have SA and clamav installed, but perhaps I don't have them configured. Would anyone here be willing to share their mix of tools and how they implement them to fight this. On a more Mailman-specific note, I have a list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] set up for my wife's business, and I constantly get bounce notices, from all sorts of strange people trying to post to her list. I likely receive 20 to 40 per day, just to her list. How do I deflect those, or is just the fact that Mailman is bouncing them and not letting through, evidence enough that it's working? Doc -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] bouncing unwanted guests, et al
On 4/3/06, Dr. Scott S. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my dilemma. I get tons of SPAM/PHISHING attacks at my email inbox. I am tired of deleting so much crap every day. I have SA and clamav installed, but perhaps I don't have them configured. Would anyone here be willing to share their mix of tools and how they implement them to fight this. This isn't really a place to ask this... but you already seem to know that. Thus: How you integrate SA and clamav into your system depends on what mail server you're running. The easiest way (I think) is to do this through Procmail (which still requires some mail server support). Procmail lets you define rules for handling messages. E.g., you can have a rule for all messages that scans them with clamav and spamassassin, and then a rule for messages that SA marks as spam (i.e., adds a header like X-Spam: Yes or somesuch) to be discarded. On a more Mailman-specific note, I have a list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] set up for my wife's business, and I constantly get bounce notices, from all sorts of strange people trying to post to her list. I likely receive 20 to 40 per day, just to her list. How do I deflect those, or is just the fact that Mailman is bouncing them and not letting through, evidence enough that it's working? My suggestion above works for this as well. You can use procmail rules along with spamassassin to pre-filter posts to your list and discard any that are blatantly spam. That said, the fact that you're getting the notifications, rather than getting spammy posts to the list, means that mailman is doing its job in this regard. Any improvements you make will just result in less spam for you. -- - Patrick Bogen -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] bouncing unwanted guests, et al
Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: On a more Mailman-specific note, I have a list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] set up for my wife's business, and I constantly get bounce notices, from all sorts of strange people trying to post to her list. I likely receive 20 to 40 per day, just to her list. How do I deflect those, or is just the fact that Mailman is bouncing them and not letting through, evidence enough that it's working? What are these notices? If they are unrecognized bounces, they may result from spam to the list-bounces address. If so, filtering before they reach Mailman will help. You can also just turn off bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner for the list. They can also be unrecognized real bounces resulting from rejects or holds of posts by non-members. Pre-filtering will help here too as will discarding rather than holding or rejecting non-member posts if you want to go that route. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
