Receiving spam when posting to list

Albert A. Modderkolk mdd at advwebsys.com
Wed Jan 18 22:16:26 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:57 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 19:41:29 +0100,
>   Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> > Am So, den 15.01.2006 schrieb Jeff Vian um 17:02:
> > > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 17:39 +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> > 
> > > > I'm receiving spam posted underneath everytime I post to the list
> > > > and so must be every poster. This is just to bring to the notice of the
> > > > list admins.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I am receiving the same.  It seems similar to the Peter Whaley spam I
> > > was receiving until I started sending that to the bit bucket.
> > > 
> > > If he does not check his mail and empty the mailbox I will do the same
> > > here.
> > 
> > I wrote the postmaster, so far no response. Maybe because of Sunday. If
> > tomorrow the situation does not change I will request the list master to
> > suspend list mail delivery to <jrhw at kol.co.nz>.
> 
> Bounces shouldn't be going back to the address in the from header in any case.
> Bounces are supposed to go to the envelope sender address which should
> go back to the list server (and can be used to detect and remove broken
> email addresses automatically).
> 

Apropos this:  How can I setup, with Evolution, a message to this mail
list, with reply-to and errors-to this mail list?  I have a 100 MB
mailbox limit so that errors-to shouldn't happen but one never knows...

Tia, Albert
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