On 11/3/25 04:18, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Paul via Mailman-users writes:

  > Iam getting alot of such from my mail server mail queue lately
  > 4d08rT4xMHzMCD6S 2393 Mon Nov 3 01:43:21
  > [email protected]
  > (host mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net[67.195.228.84] said:
  > 421 4.7.0 [TSS04] Messages from my-mail-server-IP temporarily
  > deferred due to unexpected volume or user complaints - 4.16.55.1

If "my-mail-server-IP" is in fact your mail server's IP, then you may
have a problem: spammers may be using your server as a relay for
spoofed emails.

It is also possible, or even likely that these are the result of bad actors maliciously requesting subscriptions for 3rd parties. Since this is a 421 status, these mails should remain queued in your mail server for a while and can be examined[1]. If this is the case, you may be able to mitigate this by setting

SHOW_ANONYMOUS_SUBSCRIBE_FORM = False

in your Django settings. See https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/postorius/en/latest/news.html#news-1-3-9

[1] For example if your MTA is Postfix

postcat /var/spool/deferred/4/4d08rT4xMHzMCD6S

and if that shows a subscription or email verification request

postsuper -d 4d08rT4xMHzMCD6S

to delete it so it isn't retried.

--
Mark Sapiro <[email protected]>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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