Re: Majordomo and spammers

Here are the aliases for the list and digest.  Each list has the same, 
except of course the domainname, owner and email address are shown.

1.) Majordomo
# Majordomo's aliases

majordomo: "|/usr/local/majordomo/demime - |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper 
majordomo"

owner-majordomo: [email protected]

majordomo-owner: owner-majordomo

discard: /dev/null


2.) List
#blanklist list aliases

blanklist: "|/usr/local/majordomo/demime - |/usr/local/majordomo/resend -l 
blanklist -C /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf -h domainname.com 
blanklist-outgoing"

blanklist-outgoing: ":include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/blanklist 
|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper digest -R -C -l blanklist-digest 
blanklist-digest-outgoing"

blanklist-request: "|/usr/local/majordomo/demime - 
|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l blanklist"

owner-blanklist: [email protected]

blanklist-owner: owner-blanklist

#owner-approval: owner-blanklist

3.) Digest

#blanklist-digest list aliases

blanklist-digest-outgoing: 
":include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/blanklist-digest"

blanklist-digest: blanklist

owner-blanklist-digest: [email protected]

blanklist-digest-owner: owner-blanklist-digest

blanklist-digest-request: "|/usr/local/majordomo/demime - 
|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l blanklist-digest"

blanklist-digest-approval: [email protected]

owner-blanklist-outgoing: [email protected]

owner-blanklist-digest-outgoing: [email protected]

-Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Hartley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Majordomo and spammers


> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:06:33 -0500
> "Tom Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Joe for help on this problem.  The patch immediately cut out 
>> the
>> messages which were bouncing back to me due to the use of invalid e-mail
>> addresses by the spammers.
>>
>> I am however left with the problem that majordomo is still picking up on 
>> the
>> spam messages and creating zero content messages in the digest folder. 
>> When
>> the digest is created, it then shows these messages, albeit as blank.
>>                            .  .  .
>> Also, I have two lists.  Only the list starting with the letter "s" is
>> picking up the blank messages.  The list starting with the letter "v" 
>> does
>> not pick up blank messages.
>
> I have never seen this problem on any of the list servers I've run over
> the years, and my majordomo addresses get more than their fair share of
> spam messages.
>
> Can you post the parts of your aliases file that pertain to the majordomo
> lists?  I suspect the issue has more to do with the configuration there 
> than
> any issue with majordomo itself.
>
> And a huge Thank You to Joe Jah for the posted patch - I've been looking
> for something like that for a while.
>
> -- 
> ======================================================================
>       Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - [email protected]
> Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa