Hi Greg, On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > My best guess is that someone is spamming debian-user, the messages are > being sent to everyone, my local MTA's spam filters are blocking them, > and the mailing list is getting mad at me for blocking the spam that it's > sending to me. This might not be the case, but it would explain why the > messages aren't showing up in the web archive (they're removed because > they're spam).
I believe this is the correct answer and answers all the previous questions you asked, except what to do about it. My approach is to have a hardcoded list of senders in my Exim configuration whose emails I will silently discard instead of rejecting during the SMTP conversation, if a reject decision is reached. It's not a great solution since rejecting during the SMTP conversation is the right thing to do in the general case, but Debian mailing lists are open and tend to receive quite a bit more spam than your average closed Mailman list. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
