Still sorry All,
Dan replied to my last response, which I also answered. Both are below:
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The more important point of my post, was to modify line 176 of the
"digest" script so you don't have to run an external script
to renumber the files in the $digest_work directory.
As for the problem starting after moving to a new server, have you
carefully examined all the ownerships and permissions of
all the files and directories associated with majordomo AND your MTA?
Is selinux involved? What about smrsh if you are
running sendmail?
Dan Liston
Ok, The linux is Fedora 8. Qmail is the mail program.
-Tom
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Kasky" <ed @
esson .
net>
To: "Daniel Liston" <dliston @
sonny .
org>; <majordomo-users @
greatcircle .
com>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Majordomo and spammers
FYI, demime also strips attachments at the same time that it strips the
mime from a message. I have lots of subscribers scratching their heads on
that one...
Ed
At 03:58 PM Friday, 7/11/2008, Daniel Liston wrote -=>
I have a sneaky suspicion that your spam may be graphical in nature, where
there is no body content, just an attached graphic.
Demime removes the HTML content, leaving an empty message (just assuming
here), before your aliases file passes the
converted message to your -outgoing alias where the digest script is
called. You are probably creating your own problem in
this case.
As for the sequentiality of your pre-digest files, I have seen this too,
in some cases. The solution is another patch... I offer
this piece of an email that I sent in September of 2003.
Do the timestamps on the digest.$$ messages coincide with times that
email was received for your list? Have you looked in the
$digest_work_dir
to see what files are queued up in there? Are there any skipped
numbers in the sequence of files? You might need to modify line
#176 of the digest script to say
foreach (sort @files) {
to clean things up. You might also consider creating a tmp directory
in the majordomo $HOME (or work directory if they are different) with
the proper majordomo ownership and permission, then setting $TMPDIR in
the majordomo.cf to use that directory.
In fact, I found reference to the same change on line 176 of digest in a
posting from Sept 2000 too.
Dan Liston
Tom Patterson 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.
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
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