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Re: Listserv recipe for bounced messages?

2003-04-09 09:41:23
At 11:13 2003-04-09 -0400, Louis Proyect did say:

Okay, in the case below, it bounced because it contained the words "may be forged", something we filter out through majordomo.

Uh, I use that text in my own spam filtering merely as a low-value contributor. All it means is that the hostname provided in the HELO SMTP exchange doesn't match the hostname identified by the rDNS. This is *VERY* likely to happen on initial message submissions from a client machine to their ISP.

Rejecting posts to your list based on this wouldn't be adviseable.

Note that the bounce headers you provided don't appear to be an actual Majordomo "non-subscriber" bounce, which is what you described in your original query.

Handling keyword bounces is certainly something you can do through procmail before majordomo (I have troll filters for instance, originally set up to bounce certain users to the admin for review because they were on "probation", but also used for improved logic on taboos), and if you really felt like it, you could certainly use procmail to filter the majordomo-created taboo bounces, though I don't (keyword bounces are things I want to review personally, not have automated -- the ones I have are intended to keep OT discussions off the list, and to quell/avoid flamewars).

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