[Beowulf] Current mailing list setup

Christopher Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Thu Aug 30 16:32:11 PDT 2012


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On 30/08/12 20:15, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:

> I have to say that the way things are currently now we have
> drastically reduced the amount of spam that is waiting moderation.
> Yesterday I checked throughout the day and there was only one email
> which was caught for moderation, and was let through as well as one
> spam message.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong but is spamassassin necessary if this is
> working.

Rejecting spam at the incoming SMTP conversation level is still
necessary as it will stop Mailman from producing backscatter to the
forged addresses used in spam.

> Also how can i set flags for users so that they done require
> moderation if they are legitimate users?

There's a checkbox by the email address when you're looking at
messages queued for moderation.

I've set reply-to back to just me as how to use Mailman isn't really
on-topic for the list.

cheers,
Chris
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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
 Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
 http://www.vlsci.org.au/      http://twitter.com/vlsci

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