On 8/10/26 07:09, Washington Odhiambo via Mailman-users wrote:
Now, I have a number of spam being sent to the list by non-members. The antispam rule in mailman.cfg matches and holds the email for moderation. I am failing to wrap my head around this behaviour. I was expecting that: the list administrator.
- Any posts from non-members would be discarded
- Mail classified as spam (from members) would be held for inspection by
Your thinking is correct.
The possible explanations for what you observe are the spam comes from a
non-member with a moderation action of default processing or more
likely, a sender of the spam as determined by Mailman is a member. See
<https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/blob/master/src/mailman/email/message.p...>
for documentation of the senders method that Mailman uses.
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