spam email requests for infra list - suggestions

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/12/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 juin 2015 à 23:58 +0300, Itamar Heim a écrit :
>> On 06/10/2015 11:20 AM, Eyal Edri wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> since i got added as admin to the infra list, i started seeing multiple spam
>>> requests to get accepted to the list.
>>
>> something happened past week or so, that spam emails started being sent
>> or not filtered to -owner's of mailing lists.
>> I don't remember seeing that before.
>
> Or they were filtered before on your mailbox and sent since the
> beginning ?
>
> Looking at the settings, there is:
> forward_auto_discards = 1
>
> (not sure where to find it in the UI).
>
> Could setting this to false/0 be a solution ?

its under privacy/sender filters
"Should messages from non-members, which are automatically discarded, be 
forwarded to the list moderator?"

automatically discarded here means "known spammers with fixed sender 
addresses", not spam.