Can you read this email? (second attempt)

Kevin Godby godbyk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 23:51:02 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
<es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then the problem is that the mailing list is filtering any message which has
> an attachment, at least of a certain size.
>
> This will silently left out any email which is digitally signed, probably
> also using GPG.
>
> The configuration needs to be reviewed. Specially silently dropping messages
> under this criteria is a bad thing.

I'm looking through some of the configuration options now. Here are
some that I see that might apply:

 • Messages with bodies of size greater than 40 KB will be rejected.
(I would the sender to get a bounce message.)
 • Messages to the list from non-members will receive a bounce message.
 • Messages that match the content filtering rules will be discarded
without notice to the sender. The content filtering rules are set such
that they should only apply to messages with no text in the body and
only a potentially dangerous attachment (e.g., a Windows executable).

I didn't see any other ways for a message to be silently discarded,
though I may have overlooked something. The mailing list uses the
Mailman software, so if you're familiar with that and would like me to
check some specific settings, please let me know.

—Kevin



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