[Mailman-Users] spam filters should only match list-members

Dan MacNeil dan at thecsl.org
Fri Jan 19 15:37:48 CET 2007


Never mind, I just read Mark's post on this subject re editing the 
config file. Sorry for the noise


Dan MacNeil wrote:
> I've often found reading the help for all the options in the admin 
> interface to be helpful.
> 
> 
>  > - discard mails of non-members, regardless whether they match the
>  > filters or not
> 
>  From the admin interface:
> 
> Privacy Options
>   --> Sender Filters
>       -->generic_nonmember_action : discard
> 
> 
>  From the help link:
> 
>     (privacy): Action to take for postings
>     from non-members for which no explicit
>     action is defined.
> 
>     When a post from a non-member is received,
>     the message's sender is matched against the
>     list of explicitly accepted, held, rejected
>     (bounced), and discarded addresses. If no
>     match is found, then this action is taken.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  > - make spam control only for members
> 
> 
> Bettina Hafter wrote:
>> hey there
>>
>> i'v been searching through all archive and FAQ Wizard but could not 
>> find the answer.
>>
>> We have a list, which discards all non-members. We have 2 filters 
>> which go for spams.
>>
>> 1st filter, if the X-SPAM-header contains xxxxxxx, discard it
>> 2nd filter, if the X-SPAM-header contains xxxx, set it on hold
>>
>> now all the spamers which are marked by our spamassin with xxxx in the 
>> mail-header are set on hold.
>>
>> is there a way to teach mailman to do something like that:
>>
>> - discard mails of non-members, regardless whether they match the 
>> filters or not
>> - make spam control only for members
>>
>> thanks
>> bettina
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