On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:28 PM, David Jones <djo...@ena.com> wrote: >> From: Philip Prindeville <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> >> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:53 PM >> To: David Jones >> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Must-Have Plugins? > >> On Jun 19, 2015, at 2:35 PM, David Jones <djo...@ena.com> wrote: > >>> >>>> But I’m on a LOT of high volume mailing lists (like mozilla-general and >>>> netdev) that get heavily spammed. >>> >>> Filtering mailing lists is a slightly different ballgame than filtering >>> regular email. Some of the items listed above >>> don't apply to or won't work with mailing lists (as Dianne Skoll mentioned) >>> since they are like proxies of the >>> original sender's mail server. >>> >>> Dave > >> Sorry, I also meant that many of those mailing lists are harvested… so my >> address has been bought and sold many, many times. > > I see. For email addresses that have gotten on those lists, what I have > found to be effective is to > focus more on the reputation of the sending mail server. Some mail servers > like mailchimp, > sendgrid, constant contact, etc. will get these addresses but you can safely > unsubscribe from > them and eventually get off of their lists over a few weeks. > Most of the other mail servers can be blocked by the major RBLs and the other > techniques you > mentioned in your original post. There are safe ways to whitelist specific > sending IPs for domains > where you don't have to put in a risky whitelist entry at the MTA level that > will open you up to > spoofing problems. This usually requires a little scripting to pull data > that has been vetted by the > SA level then tie it back to the MTA level. > The rest that gets to SA needs to be handled by properly trained Bayes, DBLs, > custom rules > like KAM.cf, etc.
Well that was interesting. How long at Hetzner been hosting one of the spam assassin.apache.org mirrors? Because they have a very low reputation with us. So your message, which includes the text “spamassassin.apache.org” got flagged and quarantined. More than a little ironic…
