https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56525

--- Comment #9 from Risker <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> try:   Privacy options... -> Spam filters -> Spam Filter Regexp -> put in the
> value "x-spam-status: yes" -> Select your "action"
> 
> this would be default settings. if that doesn't prove effective there should
> be
> other ways to make more specific regexes, see;
> 
> 
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/<LISTNAME>/?VARHELP=privacy/spam/
> header_filter_rules

Thank you, Daniel, this might be the ticket.  If I put in "x-spam-status: yes"
does it send *all* messages with a spam value to wherever I send it? (Likely it
would be "discard".)

Just to give you a notion of the extent of the spam, there are 69 spam messages
to functionaries-en-L in less than 24 hours; 26 to arbcom-en-appeals; 22 to
arbcom-L. I've got a couple more on my list, but they're not being spammed
nearly as badly, probably because they've had a very low number of people
who've either been subscribers or have had posts accepted over the last 3-5
years.  

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Example from one email that was definitely spam:

X-Spam-Score: 3.1 (+++)
X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system
"mchenry.wikimedia.org", has
    identified this incoming email as possible spam. If you have any
    questions, see the administrator of that system for details.
    Content analysis details:   (3.1 points, 4.0 required)

I note that other emails sent to the same mailing list replace
"mchenry.wikimedia.org" with "sodium.wikimedia.org" - not sure if that is
relevant.  

On scanning several emails to functionaries-en-L, most of them are well above
the 4.0 spam score. 

I'm concerned about tweaking the "admin_immed_notify" settings so that list
admins and moderators get fewer emails (right now we get one for every email
sent to moderation, every one auto-rejected, and everyone auto-discarded). It
seems the alternatives are lots of emails, which wouldn't change even if we up
the spam filters (they'd be auto-rejected) or no emails, which makes it less
likely that we can recover legitimate emails that sometimes get missed in the
haystack of spam.

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