Re: please ignore -- final test ?????? in posts

[Larry Hynes]

niya <niyal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/03/2018 12:51, Larry Hynes wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > niya <niyal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> if anybody does read this post
> >>
> >> i'm trying to narrow down why i'm getting rows of ??
> >>
> >> when i cut and paste information from the console to my mail client
> >>
> >> i use thunderbird to compose my mail
> >>
> >>
> >> #test VM
> >> vm "base-vm" {
> >>       boot "/bsd"
> > Your messages include non-breaking spaces (' ')[0], which are possibly
> > showing as '?' for you.
> >
> > For example, in the line above
> >
> >      boot "/bsd"
> >
> > that line is preceded by seven non-breaking spaces.
> >
> > So it is possible that when you cut and paste information to your
> > mail client it represents those characters as '?'.
> >
> > [0]: https://unicode-table.com/en/00A0/
> 
> Hi Larry
> thanks for the reply
> do you have a suggestion how i would fix this before posting and messing 
> up the mail received by the list ?
> shadrock

Hi

I don't know enough about your local setup to make any suggestions.
(A simple solution would be to find and replace all non-breaking
spaces on any mails you send.)

Re: the whole greylisting, spam filtering thing

[Larry Hynes]

Markus Rosjat  wrote:
> my boss is getting on my nerves

It may be mutual.

> that greylisting is basically out of date because of things like
> outlook.com and mails ending up delayed for ever. So the next logical
> step would be to deploy a tool like rspamd or spamassasin to examin
> mail content. These tools need to be trained and if you have a small
> mailserver with less accounts this could take a while I imagine.

Specifically in relation to rspamd: If you spend some time reading
the documentation on the rspamd website you might find that:

1. the weight of rules which classify messages as 'ham' or 'spam'
i.e. those rules which rely on the 'training' of messages, does not
have to be, in the overall context, critical. rspamd deploys a
boatload of 'tests', by default, and even more can be enabled, and
each of those can be assigned a score. hamminess or spamminess is
just one 'test'.

2. That the rspamd website specifically links to 'pre-built' ham
and spam databases which you are free to download and use.