Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:45:55 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, jack@germanium.xtalwind.net, rivers@dignus.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SPAM via vmailer-announce | Was: Re: [jdp@polstra.com: CVSup 16.0 Is Now Available] Message-ID: <ML-3.3.918675955.4086.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199902101628.LAA15968@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote, > > jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> writes: > > > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > You should be able to get off a FreeBSD mailing list by > > > > sending e-mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org. Put "unsubscribe <listname" > > > > (no quotes) in the body of the message. > > > That, unfortunately, doesn't work for that vmailer-announce > > > list. > > > Majordomo claims not to know about it. :( > > > > vmailer-announce isn't a list, it's the distribution alias for the > > freebsd-announce list. This goes to show Majordomo is pretty useless > > for closed lists since it's trivial to circumvent its blocks. > > This still begs the question why he is getting mail if he has removed > himself from the 'announce' list, even if spammers have figured out > this gaping hole in majordomo. My understanding is that going to > 'vmailer-announce' circumvents filters on freebsd-announce, but > shouldn't the distribution of mail, from either, be the same? The vmailer-announce address isn't really a gaping hole in majordomo itself; it is a hole in the majordomo/MTA interface. It may be a hole in vmailer; or it might be a hole in the specific configuration used for these lists. I had no difficulty closing that hole when using majordomo with Exim - I simply added the options to only recognize the majordomo output addresses when the connection was local and the uid/gid of the connecting process matched those I use for majordomo. (I should note that the majordomo addresses are not listed in a standard aliases file. Instead, I have a separate director that matches on the constant part of those addresses and then constructs the name of the aliasfile from the rest.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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