----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 6 November, 2012 8:19:22 PM > Subject: Re: spam filter > > On 11/06/2012 01:15 AM, Dan Yasny wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Itamar Heim" <[email protected]> To: "Dan Yasny" > >> <[email protected]> Cc: "infra" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 6 > >> November, 2012 11:13:04 AM Subject: Re: spam filter > >> > >> On 11/06/2012 07:45 AM, Dan Yasny wrote: > >>> What do we currently have? > >> > >> nothing. human moderators... > > > > I mean what MTA is used, do we control it? Can we configure it, > > install plugins etc > > We're currently hosting Mailman and Postfix ourselves. > > postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.i686 > mailman-2.1.12-17.el6.i686 > > My biggest concern with a spam filter is that it is another service > oVirt Infra has to own and maintain. Is there someone interested in > helping with ongoing support for it? > > One reason this matters is that eventually we could have the option > of > using OpenShift for Mailman, and I don't know if we could use the > same > spam filter setup. Actually, we could if we had our MTA on its own > host > doing relay for Mailman (currently OpenShift doesn't support running > an > MTA/relay as they are EC2 based, and EC2 mail relays get > blacklisted.) > But that means maintaining our own MTA and spam filter on one of our > hosted VMs indefinitely. Are we prepared to do that? > > Part of my questioning is that I haven't run a spam filter service > before, so it's Great Black Hole of Knowledge to me right now.
Actually, postfix has quite a few built in features to battle spam, without additional services. Given access, I could probably tighten those as much as possible, and see if that's enough to get rid of 90% of the spam. In my experience, it usually is. > > - Karsten > -- > Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com > @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 > > > _______________________________________________ > Infra mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra > -- Regards, Dan Yasny Red Hat Israel +972 9769 2280 _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra
