spam email requests for infra list - suggestions

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Michael Scherer" <mscherer at redhat.com>, "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 1:41:03 PM
> Subject: Re: spam email requests for infra list - suggestions
> 
> 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.

i've set that, but i'm still getting spam requests.
the problem isn't with messages sent to the list, the problem
is spammers sending requests to be added to the list, 
and i didn't see any option to block, other than maintaining manually a blacklist of emails.

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> 

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Eyal Edri
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Red Hat Israel

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