Re: Spam blocking & list delivery

Hi Thomas,

On Fri December 8 2006 11:15 am, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This morning I received this email from
>
> [email protected]. Here's an excerpt from the email:
> >Your membership in the mailing list Evms-devel has been disabled due
> >To excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
> >08-Dec-2006.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
> >you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 3 more reminders like
> >this before your membership in the list is deleted.
>
> I checked the archives and got what was happening: Our spam filtering
> servers rejects the spam on this list and this makes mailman freak out. One
> thing to note is that we don't even send back bounces, our spam boxes
> rejects spams during the SMTP session as a response to the end of the DATA
> command.
>
> It is possible to avoid mailman to freak out when only a small portion of
> mails gets rejected?

I have increased the bounce-score-threshold fro 5.0 to 10.0, and reduced the 
bounce-info-stale-after from 7.0 days to 5.0 days. Hopefully this will help 
reduce this problem. If this happens to you again, please send me an email 
and we'll see what other config changes we can make.

Thanks,
-- 
Kevin Corry
[email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/linux/

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