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

[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 <Richard at damon-family.org>
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.
>
> --
> Richard Damon
>
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