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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Thanks, Soji!

I wonder if you could elaborate just a bit - re. questions, inline, 
below....

> From: IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>
> To: "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] discarding mail from non-subscribers?
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:21:51 +0900
> Hi Miles,
>
> 2016/03/29 22:01、Miles Fidelman <address@concealed> のメッ 
> セージ:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to clean up way too much backscatter being generated by our
> > Sympa installation. Which leads me to wonder a few things:
> >
> > 1. Is there a standard scenario that discards mail from 
> non-list-members,
> > rather than sending an error response?
>
> "send.confidential" scenario (provided by Sympa 6.2.x) does such, 
> however, it
> is so restrictive and may not always be useful for your purpose.


And, we're still running 6.1.20
> You can create custom "send" scenario to return the result "reject,quiet".

Is there any easy way to do this globally?  Or am I stuck doing it 
list-by-list?


> > 2. When one disables/deletes a list, how might one set sympa to discard
> > messages rather than reply with an error?
>
> You can add an alias entry to discard messages (e.g. forwarding 
> messages to
> /dev/null).
>
> If you want to automate this process, write customized 
> alias_manager.pl to
> add entry and set its path to "alias_manager" configuration parameter. 
> (Note
> that alias_manager.pl is executed by privileges of sympa user.)

ahh.. the obvious
> > 3. Does sympa have any good mechanisms for filtering/discarding 
> messages
> > sent to -owner and sympa@<domain>?
>
> You can also add an alias entry to discard messages sent to <sympa> 
> address,
> instead of forwarding them to queue program.
>
> Note that this works properly with Sympa 6.2 or later. Earlier releases
> essensially need <sympa> alias connected to queue program.
>
>
> And also, messages bound for the <*-owner> aliases may be forwarded to 
> bit
> bucket or trash (by customizing list_aliases.tt2), if automatic bounce
> processing is not important on your site.
>
> Anyway <*-owner> alias should exist, even if it discards everything, 
> because
> this address will be used as sender of messages forwarded by Sympa and 
> many
> sites verify sender of incoming messages.

I was wondering more if any of the spam processing mechanisms apply to 
*-owner and such (i.e., discard anything labeled higher than xxx, by 
spamassassin).

Thanks Again,

Miles

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