Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-15 Thread Chip Mefford


Good day all:

- Original Message -
> From: "Chromatest J. Pantsmaker" 
> To: mailman-users@python.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:46:14 PM
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.  They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me, the
> list owner which floods my inbox.
>SNIP

just a fwiw:

years back, I ran a pretty fun mailman instance that handled a lot of internal
tasks, and was integrated into a doc management system, was glued to a few
ticket management systems, archived all of our accounting stuff, did hylafax, 
all kinds of fun tricky things

Of course, these internal lists got spammed all the time. 

as an email sysadmin, I had notifications turned off, and it was
part of the weekly checklist to log into the admin section of these lists
and clear out all of the moderation stuff. 

These seldom went over a few hundred per list per week, so it didn't actually 
take all that long. 
kind of a fri or mon morning-over-coffee task that I always suspected could be
automated, but in-the-end, was a thing that really was best handled by someone 
who
cared about 'delivering the mail' ! (aka, the postmaster's job). 

fwiw.
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-14 Thread Richard Damon
On 12/14/19 4:29 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
> Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users  writes:
>
>> On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>> As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP, 
>>> recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains 
>>> that retry successfully more than a few times.
>> The bigger senders are doing things now (more than ever) that they 
>> weren't doing 15+ years ago.  Now farms of servers will try to contact 
>> you.  The message may first try from one IP, then from another IP, then 
>> from a 3rd  It may eventually try from the same IP and make it through.
>>
>> I think most grey list solutions have an option to specify the network 
>> (frequently configured a a /24) for the sending IP.  This significantly 
>> helps with different servers in the same server farm trying to resend 
>> messages.
> Some greylisting solutions also allow you to whitelist a domain or
> subdomain, but this can result in spammers spoofing that domain getting
> through...
>
> Keith
>
>
Unless you only whitelist domains which use SPF, then SPF will catch the
spoofers.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-14 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users  writes:

> On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP, 
>> recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains 
>> that retry successfully more than a few times.
>
> The bigger senders are doing things now (more than ever) that they 
> weren't doing 15+ years ago.  Now farms of servers will try to contact 
> you.  The message may first try from one IP, then from another IP, then 
> from a 3rd  It may eventually try from the same IP and make it through.
>
> I think most grey list solutions have an option to specify the network 
> (frequently configured a a /24) for the sending IP.  This significantly 
> helps with different servers in the same server farm trying to resend 
> messages.

Some greylisting solutions also allow you to whitelist a domain or
subdomain, but this can result in spammers spoofing that domain getting
through...

Keith


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users

On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP, 
recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains 
that retry successfully more than a few times.


The bigger senders are doing things now (more than ever) that they 
weren't doing 15+ years ago.  Now farms of servers will try to contact 
you.  The message may first try from one IP, then from another IP, then 
from a 3rd  It may eventually try from the same IP and make it through.


I think most grey list solutions have an option to specify the network 
(frequently configured a a /24) for the sending IP.  This significantly 
helps with different servers in the same server farm trying to resend 
messages.


Another option that doesn't have this (state based) limitation is 
nolisting.  (TCP RST from first MX and subsequent MX(s) accept email.)




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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-14 Thread Keith Seyffarth
"Stephen J. Turnbull"  writes:

> Chromatest J. Pantsmaker writes:
>
>  > I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those
>  > test messages didn't pass.  Maybe I goofed something along the way.
>
> If the GMail address used to send is the same as the address
> subscribed to the test list, you won't see it because GMail
> deduplicates aggressively.  There is no way to fix this in GMail.  If
> you are testing from GMail you *must* use a separate address as the
> recipient.

Also, if you are testing greylisting from a GMail account, GMail tends
to retry messages from another random outgoing server, so it may take
considerable time before GMail happens to randomly pick an outgoing
server it has already used and greylisting can confirm the same message
from the same user at the same server... (It would be nice if GMail
would assign an outgoing message to one server and just retry from
there)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Chromatest J. Pantsmaker writes:

 > I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those
 > test messages didn't pass.  Maybe I goofed something along the way.

If the GMail address used to send is the same as the address
subscribed to the test list, you won't see it because GMail
deduplicates aggressively.  There is no way to fix this in GMail.  If
you are testing from GMail you *must* use a separate address as the
recipient.

Check the Mailman and the Postfix logs to see what your Mailman host
thinks is happening.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those test
messages didn't pass.  Maybe I goofed something along the way.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:04 PM Mark Sapiro  wrote:

> On 12/13/19 7:23 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> > I think I'll look into this next.  It seems that the postgrey
> > implementation that I followed from a previous email has stopped the
> spam,
> > but it's also stopped all other mail also!  doh!
>
>
> If postgrey is working as it should, it will initially respond to all
> mail with a 4xx (retryable) status. The theory is spambots won't retry,
> but legitimate MTAs will, usually after a delay of up to 15 minutes or
> so, but some more than an hour.
>
> As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP,
> recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains
> that retry successfully more than a few times.
>
> Thus, after time, the delayed mail will become less frequent.
>
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 12/13/19 7:23 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> I think I'll look into this next.  It seems that the postgrey
> implementation that I followed from a previous email has stopped the spam,
> but it's also stopped all other mail also!  doh!


If postgrey is working as it should, it will initially respond to all
mail with a 4xx (retryable) status. The theory is spambots won't retry,
but legitimate MTAs will, usually after a delay of up to 15 minutes or
so, but some more than an hour.

As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP,
recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains
that retry successfully more than a few times.

Thus, after time, the delayed mail will become less frequent.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
I think I'll look into this next.  It seems that the postgrey
implementation that I followed from a previous email has stopped the spam,
but it's also stopped all other mail also!  doh!

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 6:40 PM Gary R. Schmidt  wrote:

> On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
>  > I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem
> with
>  > spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.
> They're
>  > non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to
> me, the
>  > list owner which floods my inbox.
>  >
>  > I'm looking at the page on how to use SpamAssassin:
>  >
>
> https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.23%20How%20do%20I%20use%20SpamAssassin%20with%20Mailman%3F?action=show
>  >
>  >
>  > Is that the best way to do what I need?
>  > If so, what's the best method to use in my case?
>  > My system:
>  > Mailman 2.1.20
>  > Apache2 / 2.4.18
>  > Postfix 3.1.0
>  > Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
>
> With Postfix, you should activate the built-in SPAM control, "postscreen".
>
> The details on how to use it are in POSTCSCREEN_README when you install
> from source, I don't where/if Ubuntu puts it, or if they build it for
> their distro, but it just works.  "man postscreen" should get you started.
>
> I have it checking spamhaus.org, spamcop.net, and barracudacentral.org
> for blacklisting.
>
> I sometimes add IP ranges to "/etc/postfix/postscreeen_access.cidr",
> (they've mainly been from Brazil, Korea, and China), when I notice a new
> source that the blacklists haven't yet found, blocking out vast swathes
> of the internet doesn't trouble me.
>
> Cheers,
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Gary R. Schmidt

On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week. 
They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to 
me, the

> list owner which floods my inbox.
>
> I'm looking at the page on how to use SpamAssassin:
> 
https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.23%20How%20do%20I%20use%20SpamAssassin%20with%20Mailman%3F?action=show

>
>
> Is that the best way to do what I need?
> If so, what's the best method to use in my case?
> My system:
> Mailman 2.1.20
> Apache2 / 2.4.18
> Postfix 3.1.0
> Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

With Postfix, you should activate the built-in SPAM control, "postscreen".

The details on how to use it are in POSTCSCREEN_README when you install 
from source, I don't where/if Ubuntu puts it, or if they build it for 
their distro, but it just works.  "man postscreen" should get you started.


I have it checking spamhaus.org, spamcop.net, and barracudacentral.org 
for blacklisting.


I sometimes add IP ranges to "/etc/postfix/postscreeen_access.cidr", 
(they've mainly been from Brazil, Korea, and China), when I notice a new 
source that the blacklists haven't yet found, blocking out vast swathes 
of the internet doesn't trouble me.


Cheers,
Garyb-)
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread David Gibbs via Mailman-Users
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:16 AM Chromatest J. Pantsmaker <
chromat...@chromatest.net> wrote:

> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.  They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me, the
> list owner which floods my inbox.


I use RBL’s and the Spamassassin milter  in Postfix with great success

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
Yeah, I wanted to avoid that because non-subscribers often email the list
trying to contact the list admins or organization representatives instead.
I've tried the first link above up through step 4.  Step 5 is adding an
additional filter to Spam Assassin and doesn't appear to be directly
connected to the first four steps.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:18 AM Richard Damon 
wrote:

> On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> > I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> > spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.
> They're
> > non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me,
> the
> > list owner which floods my inbox.
> >
> > I'm looking at the page on how to use SpamAssassin:
> >
> https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.23%20How%20do%20I%20use%20SpamAssassin%20with%20Mailman%3F?action=show
> >
> >
> > Is that the best way to do what I need?
> > If so, what's the best method to use in my case?
> > My system:
> > Mailman 2.1.20
> > Apache2 / 2.4.18
> > Postfix 3.1.0
> > Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
>
> If you can't get earlier filtering to get the rate low enough, you may
> need to just change the option
>
> Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit
> action is defined.
> (Details for generic_nonmember_action)
>
> To discard so you don't get the messages (don't set it to reject or you
> will be backscattering). It does say that you won't see messages that
> should go to the list but the send used the wrong account.
>
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig

On 12/13/2019 10:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

To discard so you don't get the messages (don't set it to reject or you
will be backscattering). It does say that you won't see messages that
should go to the list but the send used the wrong account.


That's another good/final option, drop non-list-member email into the 
bit-bucket (or block hole if you prefer).


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Richard Damon
On 12/12/19 12:46 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.  They're
> non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me, the
> list owner which floods my inbox.
>
> I'm looking at the page on how to use SpamAssassin:
> https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.23%20How%20do%20I%20use%20SpamAssassin%20with%20Mailman%3F?action=show
>
>
> Is that the best way to do what I need?
> If so, what's the best method to use in my case?
> My system:
> Mailman 2.1.20
> Apache2 / 2.4.18
> Postfix 3.1.0
> Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

If you can't get earlier filtering to get the rate low enough, you may
need to just change the option

Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit
action is defined.
(Details for generic_nonmember_action)
   
To discard so you don't get the messages (don't set it to reject or you
will be backscattering). It does say that you won't see messages that
should go to the list but the send used the wrong account.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
Thanks for the responses Carl and Bruce,

I've been getting about 20 per day.  Some days more.  The noise is way
higher than the signal level here.  It's a low-used email list.

I'll try out filtering at the MTA level and see how it goes.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:34 AM Carl Zwanzig  wrote:

> On 12/12/2019 9:46 AM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> > I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> > spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.
>
> (What's a acceptable level? I wouldn't spend many hours just to eliminate
> 3
> spams a day.)
>
> > Is that the best way to do what I need?
>
> I'd go for #1, filtering at the MTA level, so that mailman generally has
> less to do, for some ideas-
>
> https://www.howtoforge.com/spam-control-for-postfix
> https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/block-email-spam-postfix
>
> By implementing some of these, you may decide that spam-assassin isn't
> necessary.
>
> Later,
>
> z!
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig

On 12/12/2019 9:46 AM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:

I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week. 


(What's a acceptable level? I wouldn't spend many hours just to eliminate 3 
spams a day.)



Is that the best way to do what I need?


I'd go for #1, filtering at the MTA level, so that mailman generally has 
less to do, for some ideas-


https://www.howtoforge.com/spam-control-for-postfix
https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/block-email-spam-postfix

By implementing some of these, you may decide that spam-assassin isn't 
necessary.


Later,

z!

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[Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

2019-12-13 Thread Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.  They're
non-subscribers so they don't go to the lists, but they *do* go to me, the
list owner which floods my inbox.

I'm looking at the page on how to use SpamAssassin:
https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.23%20How%20do%20I%20use%20SpamAssassin%20with%20Mailman%3F?action=show


Is that the best way to do what I need?
If so, what's the best method to use in my case?
My system:
Mailman 2.1.20
Apache2 / 2.4.18
Postfix 3.1.0
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
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