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

[Wendy Edwards]

Here are some SpamAssassin/Mailman resources I found.

Integrating SpamAssassin with Mailman
http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/

How do I use SpamAssassin with Mailman?
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.023.htp

- Wendy


On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:17:34AM -0500, David Gehrig wrote:
> 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.
> 
> @%<
> 
> 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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