[IMC-Tech] File 13 for Email, I Give Up

[David Gehrig]

Is whichever server hosts these lists already running procmail?  From a
quick poke around, it seems like one of the standard solutions is to
configure procmail to call SpamAssassin (which reads email and marks the
Spam ones it finds) as part of its normal handling of mail, and then
configure mailman to ignore the ones identified as spam.

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On 10/16/06, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Joe Futrelle wrote:
> > Mailman's issue with its crappy admin interface is longstanding and I
> > don't think we can wait for it to be fixed. That said, I'm as unclear
> > as Stuart about how to interpose an open-source spam filter between
> > incoming mail and whatever's running the distro lists--Mailman or its
> > eventual replacement. Rolling our own spam filter with heuristics
> > will only buy us time.
>
> True, but I'd say buying time is good.  At least we'll have
> a chance to evolve as the spam climate continues to heat up.
>
> On the NCSA e-mail system, where the organization-wide filters detect
> 100-150 spam messages sent to me each day, my personal procmail filters
> catch another 5-10 per day that the NCSA filters miss.  I'm regularly
> adding things that legit messages just won't contain, like "st-0ck" or
> "stockk" or "PH[a-z]*RMA".
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