[#24512320] Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure

[James Phillips]

> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 06:43:59 +0100
> From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [#24512320] Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure
> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <4BF76F1F.8040501 at infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> 
<SNIP! (Sig now invalid anyway)>
> 
> On 22/05/2010 24:01:52, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Is someone saying that FreeBSD lists are not hosted on
> Mailman? Or is the
> > list admin on holiday on the space station? Mailman
> supports regexes for
> > blocking, IIRC.
> 
> Check the message headers: the bogus replies to you come
> direct from
> mpcustomer.com and don't go anywhere FreeBSD mailman.
> 
> Blacklisting support at mpcustomer.com
> would be an effective fix, if you
> have that much control over your mail system.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew

While you don't say anything explicitly incorrect, I think it is trickier than that: the "From:" address is listed as freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; is is the "Reply-To:" address that is support at mpcustomer.com.

I was also reluctant to report the message as spam since the bulk of it was my own message! I don't want replies to my messages being hit by the spam filter. IMO, the message body is being used as unique "filler text" to get past Bayesian filters.

I don't claim to know if the effect is intentional or accidental.

-James Phillips