Basic spam filtering with SpamAssassin is now running on the Mailman server. As a result, we recommend that mail-list owners (moderators) reinstate "friendly" handling of non-subscriber posts, as follows:
- Go to the Privacy -> Sender Filters screen and change the "generic_nonmember_action" option from reject or discard to hold. (In my experience, this is generally the preferred way for mailing lists to handle posts by non-subscribers.) Of course some spam will still get through (to the moderation queue) that you'll have to inspect and discard by hand, it should now be very manageable. Plus: - With the recent upgrade of Mailman to version 2.19 came another key improvement in spam handling: The moderation (held messages) screen now has a option called "Discard all messages marked Defer". Use this when all the remaining messages in the moderation queue are spam. It'll discard them all at once. - We plan to further fine-tune SpamAssassin in the coming weeks/months, reducing the amount of spam that gets through even more. Eric
