Spamassassin anyone???

Simon simon at optinet.com
Sat Apr 25 01:13:24 UTC 2009


On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:18:14 -0300 (ADT), Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Martes Wigglesworth wrote:

>> Greetings list.
>>
>> I was just wondering, why don't they just run spamassassin on the 
>> freebsd lists servers?????  I would cut down on spam, and I doubt would 
>> be any overhead if it were simply updated.  The servers are sitting in a 
>> datacenter somewhere being managed by someone, I don't care how 
>> "donated" the server time is.  What happens when there is a hardware 
>> failure??? I am sure that we are not talking to each other on a freebsd 
>> 3.0 release, so why don't they just install, and use spammassassin to 
>> capture this obvious spam??? Or am I just miss informed about how these 
>> porn, sex-toy commercials, oh, and don't forget the racist/antysemetic 
>> political garbage that come through every month or so???

>As much as I agree it is annoying to see, why isn't your spamassassin 
>installed / running against your own mailbox picking it up and getting rid 
>of it?

>I run MAIA Amavisd here, which captures *alot* of the spam, but find alot 
>of the various spam's still slip through ...

>----
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SpamAssassin marks messages received from this mailing list with
RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED -4 which pretty much whitelists any spam
sent to the list.

-Simon



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