[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-1416853 ] Jan 14 change toHandlers/SpamDetect.pyisincomplete

[Mark Sapiro]

Tokio Kikuchi wrote:

>Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> 
>> The pass through of the 'hold' action if the message is to -owner seems
>> right to me, but discarding instead of rejecting a 'reject' action if
>> the message is to -owner seems wrong.
>
>Well, then it should be passed.  Rejection makes it another loop of 
>rejection notices if an initial poster forges the From: address as 
>list-owner.  Yes, I tested this.  Nothing could stop this if the mailman 
>qrunner wasn't stopped.  (Maybe growing size of rejection notice would 
>hit the MTA limit.)


Ahh. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe discard it, but put something in
the comment about the potential loop if we reject.

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