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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: pof <pau@××××××.org>
Cc: peitolm@g.o, gentoo-admin@g.o
Subject: [Gentoo-admin] Re: About Spam at gentoo.org mailing lists
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:24:11
Message-Id: 1030227698.24731.1.camel@inventor.gentoo.org
1 Hi Pau,
2
3 I'm forwarding this information to our new admin team so that they can
4 implement such a solution. Thanks for emailing it to use -- we
5 definitely don't want spam on our lists.
6
7 Best Regards,
8
9 Daniel
10
11 On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 06:28, pof wrote:
12 > Hello,
13 >
14 > I am a subscriber at several gentoo.org mailing lists. Recently there
15 > has been some spam on the lists, see for example:
16 >
17 > http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-August/014590.html
18 > http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-August/014595.html
19 > http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-August/014600.html
20 >
21 > I run mailman on my server, and I've implemented an anti-spam solution
22 > using procmail that may be useful to you too. It is quite simple:
23 >
24 >
25 > Step 1: Change your mailman wrapper in /etc/mail/aliases:
26 >
27 > Change
28 > list-name: "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post list-name"
29 >
30 > to
31 > list-name: "|/usr/bin/procmail -m MAILMAN=list-name \
32 > /var/mailman/procmail/procmailrc"
33 > (wrapped for better reading)
34 >
35 >
36 > Step 2: Put attached procmailrc file into
37 > /var/mailman/procmail/procmailrc and modify it (if necessary) to feet
38 > your needs.
39 >
40 >
41 > Step 3: Go to mailman's administrative interface and add
42 > X-Note: .*
43 > to "Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp" under
44 > Privacy Options for the list, or set this default for all mailing list
45 > using "bounce_matching_headers" variable in your mailman's
46 > configuration.
47 >
48 >
49 > If you find this useful or have any questions or comments please let me
50 > know.
51 >
52 > Best Regards,
53 >
54 > Pau Oliva.
55 >
56 >
57 > P.S: I also have an anti-virus solution to mailman if you are
58 > interested, but this is not main Gentoo mailing lists problem.
59 >
60 >
61 > --
62 > .----------------------------------------------.
63 > | Pau Oliva Fora http://pof.eslack.org |
64 > | KeyID: 665D05B533539E02 available at keyserv |
65 > `----------------------------------------------'
66 --
67 Daniel Robbins
68 Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux
69 http://www.gentoo.org