On 2024-05-02 13:37, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Today I have 5 spam messages, sent yesterday, addressed to users@lists.opensuse.org :(
They are all sent by User-Agent: HyperKitty on https://lists.opensuse.org/
I've noticed previously that pretty much all the spam I receive from this list are sent in the same way. So if it's too much to ask that the filters for this source be made stricter, can I suggest that we simply ban people from submitting mail to the list in this way?
Such traffic makes up less than 1% of the messages to the list, so we won't be losing much.
Hyperkitty is the mailinglist software.
That user-agent is the web interface to post mail to the lists. It allows people that are not subscribers to send mail if they identify with a gmail identity, for instance. I don't know if that identities can be disabled.
I would guess that either the spam bypassed our filters, or was incorrectly approved by the moderator.
I am the moderator on the Spanish mail list, and there I have solved the issue with a rule that places all email with the header User-Agent: HyperKitty under moderation. It is of course more work for the moderator. I propose that the moderator for users@lists.opensuse.org does the same. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)