On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:54:41AM -0400, Jeff Schroeder wrote: >> Postgrey is currently in use by the linux kernel mailing list. Chances >> are it will scale to gnome levels :) > > Ah, I thought this was that initial example one that tented to behave > badly after a while. If there is some RHEL5 package, we get this in > Puppet plus we can train the greylisting for a few days then I am all > for it.
So lets start off with good job christer for starting this ball rolling. Here are a few deliverables and some possible steps to move forward. Please chime in with your thoughts positive OR negative. You (Olav) mentioned sometime ago that the spamassassin rules updating cronjob was broken or needed some attention. It looks like /etc/cron.d/sa-update is simply commented out. From reading the spamassassin docs it seems the only real "downside" is that it will overwrite existing rules. I'll backup the existing rules and run it manually to see if everything still works ok. If mail still flows fine and there are dramatically more false positives, we can enable the cronjob. In other distributions, this cronjob is actually enabled by default. I'll backport the Fedora version of postgrey to EL5 and throw it in the gnome yum repos. We can create a puppet module for it to be installed and all happy-like. Christer is willing to set it up and we will all carefully watch it. If it starts eating mail we'll revert it all. Chances are, that will cut down a lot of the spam we're getting to gnome email. If not, we can look into the more postfix specific filtering suggested at the start of this thread. Perhaps it is wrong to say it, but if people are using crappy mail clients, they should change them. The majority of users shouldn't have to submit to more spam because a small minority of users use buggy clients such as Outlook. In the end, it does more harm than good as gnome infrastructure is seen as ill maintained and full of spam. -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
