Basic spam filtering with SpamAssassin is now running on the Mailman server. This provides mail-list administrators the option to reinstate "friendly" handling of non-subscriber posts w/out suffering from spam overrun.
Here's how: - In the Privacy -> Sender Filters screen, 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.) - Then, to minimize the number of spam messages you'll have to inspect as a result of the above change, go to the Privacy -> Spam Filters screen, and enter the following: Spam Filter Regexp: ^x-spam-level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Action: "Discard" This will automatically discard all messages with a SpamAssassin score of 10 or higher. You'll still have some spam getting through to the moderation queue that you'll have to discard by hand, but we're confident that setting the level at 10 practically guarantees you'll have no false-positives (legitimate messages being automatically discarded as spam). Note also there's another key improvement in spam handling that came with the recent upgrade to Mailman version 2.19. 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. Eric _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
