The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Liam Kirsher a écrit :
> Woops!  Okay, take look now.  http://www.numenet.com/sympa-err
>   
We will have a look at it ASAP. ;)

> Okay.  That seems to be designed to prevent legit members from
> submitting spam, right?
> My problem is that spammers pick up the list addresses (and other
> addresses) and send spam from random email addresses. I don't want to
> moderate it or even officially reject it (since that generates a bounce,
> which then usually bounces, creating lots of backscatter). I want to
> silently discard messages from non-list members, or maybe quarantine it.
> I'm a bit confused by the scenario syntax, and so, haven't felt too
> confident about changing it.
>   
Don't be afraid. Scenarios are your friends. They are good to you and 
your users. ;)
Anyway, you can use your scenarios to automatically and silently dismiss 
any mail marked as spam by yous spam filter. Just look at the syntax in 
the doc, it's all there.
> It's the spammers that are sending the messages that crash Sympa, in
> this case.  Also I don't feel like I want Sympa taking CPU cycles to
> process spam when it really shouldn't have to.
>   
You can save some of Sympa energy by splitting it in two processes, one 
used to analyze any incoming message, and another to distribute message 
to lists.
That way, charge has a better repartition.
This can be done by setting the sympa.conf parameter named 
"distribution_mode" to the value "fork".

Regards,

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités