[Mailman-Users] Help: spam filtering and email bouncing

[Kinson Liu]

My question is simply why we are getting spams from 
mailman-bounces at doman.name ?

Kinson

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Kinson Liu wrote:
>   
>> The product of my company uses mailman and we have been receiving spams 
>>     
> >from time to time. The spams are not directly from spammers, but 
>   
>> mailman-bounces and other valid list with -bounces at the end of the 
>> list name. We've been looking through bounce processing on the admin 
>> part, but it doesn't seem to be the solution of this question since it 
>> is only for disabling email accounts. Spam filter under privacy option 
>> seems the right place, but the two textareas do not make too much sense 
>> to me. Please help. One of the sample is pasted below.
>>     
>
>
> I'm sorry. I do not understand what your problem is.
>
>
>   
>> *From:* mailman-bounces at lists.helixcommunity.org 
>> [mailto:mailman-bounces at lists.helixcommunity.org] *On Behalf Of *dacey 
>> aseria
>> *Sent:* Monday, June 12, 2006 7:38 AM
>> *To:* some-valid-email-list at helixcommunity.org
>> *Subject:* I'm not a follower... I'm a leader with the same idea
>>     
>
>
> This looks like a Microsoft Outlook rendering of a message from the
> 'mailman' list posted to the list by "dacey aseria". This is the way
> Outlook would show a message with
>
> From: dacey aseria <user at example.com>
>
> and
>
> Sender: mailman-bounces at lists.helixcommunity.org
>
> This would be the Sender in a message from the
> mailman at lists.helixcommunity.org list. See
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp>
> for more info. The Sender is set to the list-bounces address to help
> get actual bounces returned to the proper place.
>
> Is dacey aseria a list member? It looks like someone has spammed your
> list by spoofing the address of a list member. There is no good way to
> deal with this in Mailman although Privacy option->Spam filters may
> help. The real solution is to do spam filtering in the incoming MTA
> before the mail ever gets to Mailman.
>
>   

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*Kinson Liu* | Software Development Engineer | RealNetworks, Inc. | 
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