Re: Majordomo and spammers

["Tom Patterson" <pattersontj @ sbcglobal . net>]

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.
I have a script which deletes all zero content messages in the digest folder 
immediately before the mkdigest command is issued by a cron job.  The 
problem then arises that the remaining messages are not sequentially 
numbered in the digest folder, and do not all get picked up by the digest. 
I can get around this problem by renumbering the messages, starting from 
zero.
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.
As the spam is addressed to majordomo @
domainname, I assume that majordomo is 
dumping the blank messages into the first folder he comes to.  I also assume 
that if I created a dummy list starting with a alpha character prior to "s", 
the zero messages would end up there, leaving my list folders unaffected by 
the spam.  I will try this next.
However, is there some way to prevent majordomo from creating these zero 
content messages?
-Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah @
cloud .
ccsf .
cc .
ca .
us>
To: "Tom Patterson" <pattersontj @
sbcglobal .
net>
Cc: <majordomo-users @
greatcircle .
com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Majordomo and spammers


> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Tom Patterson wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:04:38 -0500
> > From: Tom Patterson <pattersontj @
sbcglobal .
net>
> > To: majordomo-users @
greatcircle .
com
> > Subject: Majordomo and spammers
> >
> > I have recently moved my site to a new server using Q Mail, and 
> > reinstalled Majordomo.  I am having two problems.
> > 1.  I am getting hit with a great amount of spam addressed to majordomo, 
> > which is generating replies to non-existent addresses, which in turn 
> > bounce back to me.  The replies are the standard reply from majordomo 
> > when it does not understand a message.
> >      Is there any way of stopping these replies from Majordomo or of 
> > changing the majordomo's address from majordomo @
domain .
com?
> > 2.  All of these spam messages to majordomo are generating zero content 
> > messages in the digest folder, which in turn, adds blank messages to the 
> > digest.  How can this be fixed?
> > -Tom
> ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/majordomo-patches/1.94.5/noCommand_noBounce.0
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe
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