Apple mail has a little check box on the preferences pane, labelled something like "Trust spam headers from my ISP". I have it checked for now, so that the Auto-White List (AWL) at SourceForge takes care of letting Hardhats mail through, but for mail coming from elsewhere, Spam Assassin will run locally to filter out spam (and does a good job, I might add).
--- David Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply whitelist the domain (lists.sourceforge.net). It'll be hard > for > SF to fix it themselves unless they threw something on the bottom of > every message that WASN'T an advertisment. You take pure Code (which > isn't in a dictionary) + Newsletter Ad and it'll = SPAM. > > Combined with the fact that everyone's using a different type of > filter > - whether its web based (Yahoo/Gmail/etc), POP/IMAP based > (Spamassassin/etc), Exchange (IMF/Outlook/etc), or pure-client driven > (Cloudmark/IHateSpam/etc). There's no simple fix to cover all your > bases. > > I just whitelist anything I want regardless. For Dialog Medical, we > whitelist at the Exchange level our customer domains for the same > reason > (we don't want to miss a thing). At the client level, users can > control > their own white/black lists as well and that's where I stick my > newsletter subscriptions. > > /David. > > David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kevin > Toppenberg > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Spam filters and MUMPS (was: > Installing > on Windows XP: HOME DEVICE...) > > I don't know how to fix it. I had to pull THIS message back out of a > spam folder on GMail. > > Kevin > > On 9/7/05, Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been finding email from this list consistently getting > caught > in the spam filters, > > especially when it contains MUMPS code. I imagine that many > subscribers to this list could > > be losing messages like the one I am replying to because some > overly > zealous spam filter > > stuck in the trash. Following are message headers added by > sourceforge > to this message. My > > campus email system also appended similar warnings but with a > higher > spam score because it > > didn't have the -2.7 white-list credit. > > > > Is it possible to get sourceforge to smarten up their scoring > algorithm to not pick on > > MUMPS in messages to this list. > > > > X-Spam-Score: 5.159 (*****) > BAYES_00,OBSCURED_EMAIL,UPPERCASE_25_50,WEIRD_QUOTING > > X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. > > See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. > > Report problems to > http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 > > 3.2 OBSCURED_EMAIL BODY: Message seems to contain > rot13ed address > > 2.0 WEIRD_QUOTING BODY: Weird repeated > double-quotation marks > > 0.2 UPPERCASE_25_50 message body is 25-50% uppercase > > -2.7 AWL AWL: From: address is in the > auto > white-list > > > > James Lane wrote: > > >Here's the script. > > > > > >I am still unable to >D ^ZU without the trouble screen. > > > > > >Thanks for your assistance. > > > > > >-James > > >-------- Script ------ > > >%ZOSV ;SFISC/AC - $View commands for Open M for NT. ;09/22/2004 > 11:56 > > > ;;8.0;KERNEL;**34,94,107,118,136,215,293,284**;Jul 10, 1995 > > ... > > <snip> > > > > --------------------------------------- > > Jim Self > > Systems Architect, Lead Developer > > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * > Testing > & QA > > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing > & > QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing > & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
