Re: I hate Spam
and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. I only receive a couple a day - no problem at all. I have subscribed to misc , ipv6 and tech. I am free from spam too. works great. No, problem at all. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya
Re: I hate Spam
In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: I'm new to this list and to OpenBSD, and currently signed up for misc, ports and www lists, and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. Most of it is on www@ (because the address is at the bottom of many of the web pages), unsubscribe from that and you'll see a big reduction. Just wondering how other subscribers solving this mather ? Personally I read these lists on gmane.org via NNTP, using slrn with decent killfiles which get rid of a lot of the junk (and even better, can killfile a thread or an annoying person with about 3 keypresses, which saves way more time than the spam filtering).
Re: I hate Spam
Not wanting to end up in your killfile, but... what I've noticed is that I don't see any English-language spam at all on any of the lists. What I do see when periodically checking my junk folders for false positives is spam in Spanish, Russian, and maybe a bit of Chinese, French, and Portuguese. I don't say that to complain, just to observe. If someone more bothered wants to pitch in, download the last year or so of archives and knock yourself finding a way to extend the existing protections to catch non-English spam without, saying, deciding that posts containing patches are spam because they aren't in English. On 11 May 2011, at 20:11, Stuart Henderson wrote: In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: I'm new to this list and to OpenBSD, and currently signed up for misc, ports and www lists, and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. Most of it is on www@ (because the address is at the bottom of many of the web pages), unsubscribe from that and you'll see a big reduction. Just wondering how other subscribers solving this mather ? Personally I read these lists on gmane.org via NNTP, using slrn with decent killfiles which get rid of a lot of the junk (and even better, can killfile a thread or an annoying person with about 3 keypresses, which saves way more time than the spam filtering). smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: I hate Spam
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] Pe vegne af Stuart Henderson Sendt: den 11 maj 2011 21:11 Til: SpamTrap Cc: misc@openbsd.org Emne: Re: I hate Spam In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: I'm new to this list and to OpenBSD, and currently signed up for misc, ports and www lists, and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. Most of it is on www@ (because the address is at the bottom of many of the web pages), unsubscribe from that and you'll see a big reduction. Just wondering how other subscribers solving this mather ? Personally I read these lists on gmane.org via NNTP, using slrn with decent killfiles which get rid of a lot of the junk (and even better, can killfile a thread or an annoying person with about 3 keypresses, which saves way more time than the spam filtering). Thank you for your answer. Yes, looks like you're right about www. Think I will drop that list. Not because of the spam, but it don't seem to be very productive anyway. This far, the mail I receive from the OpenBSD lists, approximately 25% is spam, ( subscribed for 3 days ) and that made me a bit curious, because I'm also subscribed to several list at FreeBSD but don't see this pattern there. The main reason for me bringing up this subject, is to try to get a grip on the 3 tools I'm using. Spamd, spamassassin and procmail. The relevant part of my sendmail.cf : dnl FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clmilter',`S=local:/var/clamav/clmilter.sock, F=, T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl Dnl Spamd : enabled greylisting Spamassassin : edited local.cf and manually added blacklist_from entries. Procmail : my procmailrc looks like this: DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw | /usr/local/bin/spamc :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes in-x-spam I suspect the key to success is to configure procmailrc in a proper way ? Open for all suggestions, pointers in the right direction etc. And yes, I have tried googling and reading man pages, but off course missed the point :-) /Hasse
Re: I hate Spam
--- SpamTrap [Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:51:19PM +0200]: --- I'm new to this list and to OpenBSD, and currently signed up for misc, ports and www lists, and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. taken from: http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html The OpenBSD mailing lists use spamd(8) in greylisting mode as well as SpamAssassin to keep down the spam volume but things do sneak through--deal with it. In addition, the list server also has regex-based rules to reject based on some common spam and virus telltales. If you get spam through one of the OpenBSD mailing lists, you don't need to send a copy to the list owner--chances are he's already seen it. Also, please do not submit spam received through the mailing lists to spamcop as this will result in the list server being added to their RBL. Complaining about and commenting upon spam on the list proper is counter-productive as it generates more traffic than the spam itself.
Re: I hate Spam
OpenBSD MailingList wrote: and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. I only receive a couple a day - no problem at all. Just wondering how other subscribers solving this mather ? I use the messages that pass through for training bogofilter :) Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen
Re: I hate Spam
I second that! Some must live the perfect life if a couple of spam messages is considered as a problem. I often use a key on my keyboard named Delete, takes no time at all and I can sleep well at night. // rancor 2011/5/11 Mikkel C. Simonsen m...@post5.tele.dk OpenBSD MailingList wrote: and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. I only receive a couple a day - no problem at all. Just wondering how other subscribers solving this mather ? I use the messages that pass through for training bogofilter :) Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen
Re: I hate Spam
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] Pe vegne af rancor Sendt: den 11 maj 2011 21:33 Til: OpenBSD MailingList; misc@openbsd.org Emne: Re: I hate Spam I second that! Some must live the perfect life if a couple of spam messages is considered as a problem. I often use a key on my keyboard named Delete, takes no time at all and I can sleep well at night. // rancor 2011/5/11 Mikkel C. Simonsen m...@post5.tele.dk OpenBSD MailingList wrote: and receive a lot of spam mail through the lists. I only receive a couple a day - no problem at all. Just wondering how other subscribers solving this mather ? I use the messages that pass through for training bogofilter :) Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen Thanks for the answers. Apparently I didn't make myself clear enough. I'm not complaining about a couple of spam-mails. I posted this message to try to learn something from more experienced users. Like tips tricks on the mentioned spamd and spamassassin, hell yeah, even sendmail. So tips like the above, are especially valuable. snip I often use a key on my keyboard named Delete, takes no time at all and I can sleep well at night. /snip All the best /Hasse
