I simply incorporated spamassassin into mailman, set the level at low, enough, and the spam all but disappeared.
I hold all non spam-identified non-subscribed addresses. Occasionally people post from the wrong address etc. On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:22:01 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: > I'm involved with the administration of around a dozen email lists that > run via mailman. They would typically get at least half a dozen > messages a day that were either spam or viruses/worms etc and generate > an email requesting they be dealt with by the individual list admins. > > A couple of months ago the main administrator introduced a package > called milter-greylist , which does just what Volker is referring to - > if you're not subscribed, go away and try again in 2 minutes. > Legitimate messages are resent by the ISP and get through next time. > Literally overnight the number of messages that needed to be dealt with > by the administrators went from several a day to zero and I've not seen > an admin notice from any of the lists for weeks now. > > Absolutely magic :-)) > > http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/ > and plenty of hits in google. > > > Cheers, > Roger > > > > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > >>Greylisting mail is completely pointless, due to all of the methods > >>having been published in great detail. > >> > >> > > > >I'm not sure that reasoning holds. Rejecting all email from senders > >which haven't sent anything before with a "service unavailable, try > >again in X minutes" is, theoretical anyway, covered by the mail > >transport protocol. Obviously this won't get rid of spammers who in fact > >do try again in X minutes, but it does get rid of rubbish from worms etc > >which lack more sophisticated retry mechanisms. It also gets rid of the > >vast majority of spammers who don't bother to retry. I'd expect that to > >change though as soon as it's making a noticable dent into the spammers' > >success. Still more time for the filters to catch up... > > > >Volker > > > > > > > > > -- Nick Rout
