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Subject: Re: Non-member submissions being accepted by lists.
From: Frank Bax <fbax @ sympatico . ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:16:57 -0400
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
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At 12:42 PM 4/6/06, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>Recently, we have discovered that our mailing lists are accepting posts
>from non-subscribers if they are sent to our server in the form:
>
>listname-list@server.domain_name
>
>instead of
>
>listname@server.domain_name


You can block outside email to that address without affecting the operation 
of your list.  If your MTA is sendmail, you should add this entry to 
virtusertable:

listname-list@server.domain_name        error:nouser User unknown

I'm not *why* this works, but it does.

Frank 



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