Mailman And Spamassasin

[wsuarez]

First let me say thanks to Carl for his help over the past two days getting to the bottom of this problem.

 

I've run Mailman lists on TCH for years now, it's a great tool, with relatively few issues.

 

However earlier this week I noticed that a post sent to my moderated list (suarez-humor@my-tch-domain) wasn't getting delivered to me (the moderator) for approval.

 

I opened a ticket as there have been a couple of times in the past when Mailman gacked and had to be restarted - that didn't make any difference so Tom opted to push the ticket to Carl.

 

Carl and I went back and forth on various things. He attempted to send to the list from Yahoo and saw the mail come in and then just disappeart - never being processed by Mailman.

 

I tried sending a post from the webmail portal and that DID go through.

 

Well it turns out the Spamassasin was flagging the posts as spam and trashing them. I'm assuming there must have been an update to spamassisin's (geez, that's tough to type) pattern or engine somewhere around 4/2 where in now thinks mailman "forwards" are spam.

 

I had to going into spamassisin and whitelist my own domain to ensure the forwarded messages got through properly.

 

This is definately a new requirement as I've never had to do that in the past.

 

So for anyone that uses spamassasin and mailman (or even just spamassasin) you should probably whitelist your own domain as I've noticed it will trap a message that has no "text" (say you email an image to yourself inline in an HTML formatted message).

 

Thanks again Carl!

 

Bill Suarez

Edited April 9, 2007 by TCH-Don
changed email address to hide it from spammers

[TCH-Bruce]

When using spamassassin I always whitelist my own domain.