Yay! Nice work Eric. You might want to send a note to opensolaris-discuss/announce to let people know who may not be watching website-discuss.
cheers, steve Eric Boutilier wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
