On 7/09/2014 9:27 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 01:09:57AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> FWIW, I've noticed that there is actually *more* spam than what I do >> receive, simply because my trivial procmail filters catch about half >> of it. I'll see if I find a way to port them to postfix in order to >> reduce this amount for everyone to the level I'm seeing on my side. > > With Benoit's help, we have converted most of these filters and applied > them to the list. They don't generate false positives on my side so they > should be safe.
Thank you for making an effort on this. > Also, please let me post a few numbers. On Friday, the server rejected > 5495 emails at the connection level, 206 based on a few correctness rules, > and only delivered 83 to the mailing list, 37 of which were valid, and 10 > of which were valid but caused by someone who intentionally wants to harm > the list, which leaves 36 spam out of 5737, which is 0.63%. I had to delete > about 10-20 of them by hand from my box, I don't remember, which indicates > that the extra filters could catch about half of the remaining ones on > average, without false positives. I doubt you can count the 5495 messages - however I would count the 83 and the breakdown of such. > Personally, I consider that if we kill 99.5% of spam and only let 0.5% > leak through for the sake of not getting any false positives, it's already > reasonably good for an open mailing list. I know that some people won't > share this point of view, but that suits my goals for this list. I think we disagree here, but I'll let the matter rest. -- Steven Haigh Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299
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