[gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Kim Nielsen]

Hi,

I have said it before and I'll say it again. Could be please have
spamassassin and a prober configured procmail script installed to
moderate the gentoo mailing lists from spam and muppets ?

/Kim
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Bjarke Sørensen]

Kim Nielsen wrote:
> I have said it before and I'll say it again. Could be please have
> spamassassin and a prober configured procmail script installed to
> moderate the gentoo mailing lists from spam and muppets ?

How about refusing mails from non-describers for a start.

How does Mailman handle SPAM?
It seems to have "Integrated spam filters" if they are enabled they don't
work very well.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:10:36PM +0200, Bjarke S?rensen wrote:
>How about refusing mails from non-describers for a start.
>
>How does Mailman handle SPAM?
>It seems to have "Integrated spam filters" if they are enabled they don't
>work very well.

you can disable the ability to post from non-subscribed addresses for one
thing. Also you could setup spamasassing then add an entry for the added
headers to block list.

adding rbl checks to the mta on the listserver would also take care of a
good bit of it. It's really not hard to do. I manage several lists and they
don't get any spam.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Colin Morey]

On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 13:53, Kim Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have said it before and I'll say it again. Could be please have
> spamassassin and a prober configured procmail script installed to
> moderate the gentoo mailing lists from spam and muppets ?
> 
> /Kim
This has come up a number of times recently, and each time i have to
double check my own spam folder to find out what the reason for the
complaint is, (I run spamassasin locally, and it works very well), I
don't think however that legally filtering of traffic to an open
mailling list is a good thing.

Would people be interested in a short guide to configure spamassasin for
use on a gentoo system?

Colin Morey.

(opinions expressed herein are not necessary the opinions of the Gentoo
team,.. nor anyone else's bar mine.)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Roger Hawley]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:10:40 +0100
Colin Morey <peitolm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 13:53, Kim Nielsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have said it before and I'll say it again. Could be please have
> > spamassassin and a prober configured procmail script installed to
> > moderate the gentoo mailing lists from spam and muppets ?
> > 
> > /Kim
> This has come up a number of times recently, and each time i have to
> double check my own spam folder to find out what the reason for the
> complaint is, (I run spamassasin locally, and it works very well), I
> don't think however that legally filtering of traffic to an open
> mailling list is a good thing.
> 
> Would people be interested in a short guide to configure spamassasin
for use on a gentoo system?

 Yes yes yes


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:10:40PM +0100, Colin Morey wrote:
>This has come up a number of times recently, and each time i have to
>double check my own spam folder to find out what the reason for the
>complaint is, (I run spamassasin locally, and it works very well), I
>don't think however that legally filtering of traffic to an open
>mailling list is a good thing.

yes but at a minimun turning on rbl checks and not taking mail from
unsubscribed addresses or bogus From: addresses should be a required
minimum for any list....

>
>Would people be interested in a short guide to configure spamassasin for
>use on a gentoo system?
>
>Colin Morey.
>
>(opinions expressed herein are not necessary the opinions of the Gentoo
>team,.. nor anyone else's bar mine.)
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Bjarke Sørensen]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 05:08:11PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> >This has come up a number of times recently, and each time i have to
> >double check my own spam folder to find out what the reason for the
> >complaint is, (I run spamassasin locally, and it works very well), I
> >don't think however that legally filtering of traffic to an open
> >mailling list is a good thing.

Bah, if people wont to participate they should not use the same
account as they use for spamming..  There is a reason why they get
listed as spammers you know.

> yes but at a minimun turning on rbl checks and not taking mail from
> unsubscribed addresses or bogus From: addresses should be a required
> minimum for any list....

Indeed!


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam and muppets

[Kim Nielsen]

On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 23:10, Colin Morey wrote:
> This has come up a number of times recently, and each time i have to
> double check my own spam folder to find out what the reason for the
> complaint is, (I run spamassasin locally, and it works very well), I
> don't think however that legally filtering of traffic to an open
> mailling list is a good thing.
I too have spamassasin installed locally and use procmail to filter out
certain mails but they still flood my server by sending mails from
system accounts like mailer-daemon.

I would like nothing more than to drop mails from mailer-daemon and
maybe a check to see if the user is a subscriber (To prevent spam)

Best regards
Kim