[Mailman-Users] Site-Wide SPAM rejection confusion...

[Pug Bainter]

Dan Mick (dmick at utopia.West.Sun.COM) said something that sounded like:
> >   First, it appears that I got the header SPAM prevention done correctly.
> >   Unfortunately I can't get the message body SPAM prevention done
> >   correctly. If I have something like the following:
> > ('None', 'Snowhite was turning'),
> >   within the KNOWN_SPAMMERS area, it doesn't discard the SPAM. Am I
> >   missing something very basic?
> What's your exact syntax for that KNOWN_SPAMMERS line?

Here we go:

KNOWN_SPAMMERS = [('from', 'hahaha at sexyfun.net'), ('subject', 'ndn:'),
                  ('subject', 'rcpt:'), ('subject', 'delivery confirmation'),
                  ('subject', 'non-delivery of:'), ('subject', 'undeliverable'),
                  ('subject', 'receipt confirmation'), ('subject', 'failed mail'
),
                  ('subject', 'returned mail'), ('subject', 'unable to deliver m
ail'),
                  ('subject', 'away from my mail'), ('subject', 'autoreply'),
                  ('subject', 'cc:mail'), ('subject', 'ccmail'),
                  ('subject', 'mail failure'), ('subject', 'autoresponse'),
                  ('subject', 'delivery.*notification'), ('subject', 'printer to
ner'),
                  ('subject', 'error sending mail'),
                  ('None', 'happy99'), ('None', 'ska.exe'), ('None', 'ska.dll'),
                  ('None', 'yahoo.*auto response'), ('None', 'deliver failure re
port'),
                  ('None', 'deliver problem notification'), ('None', 'vacation r
eply'),
                  ('None', 'david ross'), ('None', 'mike bender'),
                  ('None', 'twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score'),
                  ('None', 'i received your email and I shall send you a reply a
sap'),
                  ('None', 'till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs')
,
                  ('None', 'urgent info inside. disregard macro warning.'),
                  ('None', 'you have been infected with hiv'), ('None', 'Snowhit
e was turning'),
                  ('None', 'have fun with these links'),
                  ('None', 'newsgroup autoposter 95'), ('None', 'www.xxxsizzle.c
om'),
                  ('None', 'www.gai.co.kr'), ('None', 'www.edemocracy.org'),
                  ('None', 'http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/statutes/email/fedtable.ht
ml'),
                  ('None', 'freebizlinks.net'), ('None', 'laszouadszasd.com'),
                  ('None', 'http://www.house.gov/writerep'),
                  ('None', 'good luck totem'), ('None', 'if you forward to 11 pe
ople'),
                  ('None', 'benchmark supply'), ('None', 'toner cartridges'),
                  ('None', 'printer toner'),
                  ('None', '770-399-0953'), ('None', '800-725-2161'),
                  ('None', '800-586-0540'), ('None', '888-532-7170'),
                  ('None', '770-698-9700'), ('None', '888-532-8842'),
                  ('None', '888-800-6339')]

> >   Second, should I have to build the SpamDetect.pyc file or is it
> >   supposed to be autobuilt? It isn't being autobuilt like the mm_cfg.pyc
> >   is.
> It should be autobuilt.  Maybe there's a bug in the Python and you're
> getting error logs?

No errors in the errorlog after I fixed a typo. I forgot a close paren.

>From a google search I found that it gets autobuilt if it doesn't exist.
I deleted it and it got autocreated.

> >   Second, what is the 'spam' directory for? I couldn't find reference to
> >   it anywhere.
> Seems to be an evolutionary dead-end.  Never seen it used either.

Got it.

Ciao,

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