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Steve Howie <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:11:51 -0500
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Paul Russell wrote:
> On 2/19/2008 11:52 AM, Steve Howie wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> One of our list owners reported a spam message managed to get posted
>> to one of his lists, where the sender is not a member of the list.
>>
>> The posting (obviously forged) came from listname@listserv-hostname
>> in other words, the posting address for the list.
>>
>> This "username" is not a subscriber to the list. Is it possible for
>> such a posting to bypass the Send= settings for the list? It's
>> currently set to Subscription= By_Owner and  Send= Service, where
>> Service= our-local-email-domain
>>
>
> To the best of my knowledge, LISTSERV should not accept a posting where the
> sender address is the list address, but there is insufficient
> information to
> do anything more than speculate. It would be helpful to see the list
> configuration and the full headers from the message in question.
>

Hi Paul (and Gregory),

Greg: Yes, the logs showed that the list did accept the posting from the
poster with the same email address as the posting address for the list.
(XXXXXX is the name of the list)

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17 Feb 2008 05:52:51 Processing file 22639715 from [log in to unmask]
17 Feb 2008 05:52:51 Processing mail from [log in to unmask] for XXXXXX
17 Feb 2008 05:52:51 Distributing mail ("XXXXXX") from
owner-XXXXXX@LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA...
17 Feb 2008 05:52:51 Mail posted via SMTP to [log in to unmask]

[.... Rest of subscribers follow ....]

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here is the list config:

XXXX
   Review= Private      Subscription= By_Owner
   Send= Service
   Service=*.uoguelph.ca, uoguelph.ca
   Default-Options= Repro,Noack
   Confidential= Yes
   Notify= Yes          Reply-to= sender,Respect     Files= No
   Stats=  Normal,Private                      Validate= No
   Owner= [log in to unmask] (XXXXXX XXXX)
   Quiet:
   [log in to unmask] (YYY  YYYYYYY)


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Headers:  (This is a sensitive list, so I'm going to replace the listname
with the string ZZZZZZZ)

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