Majordomo and Spam

[Rich Edelman]

If you ask me, which you didn't but too bad :), the problem here isn't the 
majordomo config, but rather the mailserver (illiana.net) accepts emails from 
known open relays.  Perhaps the easiest way of fixing the spam problem on 
this list is to change the mailserver config to use a RBL service such as 
SPEWS (http://www.spews.org). SPEWS (Spam Prevention Early Warning System) is 
a list of known open relays (read: mail servers that allow relaying, see 
Hal's previous post where he tests illiana.net for this). It's pretty easy to 
set up and can work with various MTAs. I use it with Postfix for my domains.

Anyway, that's just how I would fix this problem. As with any spam filtering, 
you do run the risk of rejecting perfectly valid email.

Rich

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 05:13 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Ok, so we've discussed before that there are reasons we don't validate
> inbound messages to the list, and we see why that's a bad idea again and
> again.  I know there are versions of Majordomo that will allow a single
> user to use multiple accounts to post from, because I've seen the "help"
> messages that explain how _users_ do it.  I guess someone (that would be
> me) has to figure out how to set this up and configure our kind, generous,
> wise List Administrator to do this.