Relnotes content feed spam

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri Dec 14 20:09:00 UTC 2007


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:08 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>   
>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there any way to cut down or stop spam to our relnotes content list
>>> feed?  Is it because we don't require membership so that we can feed
>>> content from non-human sources?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Aside from requiring membership there might be some spam headers built 
>> in from Red Hat's scanner to deny some mail if it goes through the 
>> normal list.  Is it going to an @redhat.com or an @fedoraproject.org 
>> address?
>>
>> Example headers:
>>
>> X-RedHat-NoId: 209.197.145.189 sent message with No ID
>> X-RedHat-Spam-Warning: 9.7 (*********) ADVANCE_FEE_1,ADVANCE_FEE_2,ADVANCE_FEE_3,ADVANCE_FEE_4,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID,NA_DOLLARS,NO_REAL_NAME,RAZOR2_CHECK,SARE_SUB_NEED_REPLY,UNDISC_RECIPS
>> X-RedHat-Spam-Score: 9.7 *********
>>     
>
> The address for the content is fedora-relnotes-content (at) rh d0t com.
> The mail we're getting in is being stripped of its HTML attachments, so
> whatever AV solution is there, seems to be working fine.  It would be
> nice to simply have these vanish before they get passed to the list, but
> honestly I'm not much of a mail mechanic.  If this is worth a ticket for
> someone to investigate, I'll be happy to fill one out, but I don't want
> to create a difficult job for someone when my Del key suffices.
>   

My mailman foo is a little weak but I think the admin of that list can 
make rules to reject mail with the above headers listed in the message.  
I can assist with this if you guys are interested, I'll just need the 
list password.

    -Mike




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