[Mailman-Users] SPAM Control

[Ivan Fetch]

Hi Kevin,

    Where would you like the spam to be put instead of the hold directory? 
If the spam is filtered to some other folder, there will still be 
something  which will need to be cleaned at some point.  There's always the "Discard 
held messages older than this number of days" option in mailman 2.1.6.


Thanks - Ivan.



On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 kevinc at seaplace.org wrote:

> Alas, much simplier Ivan:  Most of my list only allow members to post.
> Most spammers don't bother to subscribe, so their e-mails get deferred.
> Every morning at 8am I get a note telling me how many are pending...
>
> What I'm looking for is something that could sit between Postfix and
> Mailman and filter most of this "stuff" out.  I'm risk adverse, so would
> like it routed somewhere instead of being dropped automatically, but
> protecting all my lists (and users) would be cool.
>
> Kevin
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>>     I'm curious, how are you filtering spam - with a spam filtering rule
>> that matches a particular header and holds the message?  If so, do you
>> have lists configured to send notifications for held messages?  We found
>> that this of course generates backscatter ("your message has been held"
>> outbound emails to addresses which are forged or do not exist) - we are
>> looking for other ways to (perhaps) forward emails matching a spam rule to
>> the listname-owner address with a note somewhere about why the owners are
>> receiving the message.
>>
>>
>> Thanks - Ivan.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 kevinc at seaplace.org wrote:
>>
>>> All -
>>>
>>> Although Mailman does a great job blocking SPAM from my users, the daily
>>> task of purging all defered e-mails (SPAM 99.9% of the time) is growing
>>> weary.
>>>
>>> I'm an AMD-64 Gentoo Linux, Postfix, Mailman server - does anyone have
>>> any
>>> suggestions for a system wide anti-spam tool that integrates well?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
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