I think both Y!Groups and Google Groups have separate handling of mail
moderated for spam reasons, not sure how easy that would be to set up with
mailman.  That way, you can say only digest the spam ones, while forwarding
the regular ones.

Agreed, the best bet is to do more smtp time blocking, so you don't have to
deal with the spam even getting in the queue.  The exact features of doing
that will vary depending on your spam load and what you can actually do
with your server, of course.

Locking down lists to only posts from users will probably do enough for
most smaller systems that don't have to deal with drive by signups (though,
moderating joining goes a long way to fixing that, also).

Our spam system definitely tries to understand forwarders and not penalize
them, but its a hard problem... and wrapping them in a moderation message
definitely makes it harder for the normal forwarding rules... if you feel
Gmail is penalizing for these, please send me some examples off-line and I
can have the spam team take a look and see if there is a good way to handle
these.

With Google Apps domains, you can certainly add various whitelisting rules
to ensure the mail gets through.  We've debated what simple things we could
add to the consumer settings to help in these situations, though this is
yet another one.

Brandon

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:48 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> >Your two approaches are to avoid the use of SMTP for transporting these
> >messages (i.e. give all administrators a local account, and ask them to
> >check their their mailboxes with POP or IMAP; which does not necessarily
> >avoid content scanning, but does it in a way that doesn't involve *your*
> >reputation); or to evade content analysis by encrypting admin messages,
> >either with per-recipient solutions like OpenPGP or S/MIME, or with a
> >general shared secret scheme.
> >
> >Looking at client support, I'd say that OpenPGP is probably the better
> >option.
>
> I'd say the opposite.  Every desktop MUA supports POP and IMAP, and
> the three major webmail systems, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo, all let
> you consolidate your mail by POP or IMAP from other accounts.  None
> of the webmail systems support PGP or S/MIME except maybe by some
> experimental add-ons.
>
> What I've done for some of my users who want their mail forwarded to a
> gmail address is to run it through spamassassin.  If the spam score is
> low, I just forward it so they get it right away.  If the score is
> high I drop it in a local mailbox so they get it eventually when gmail
> picks it up by POP.  Works pretty well.
>
> R's,
> John
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