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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Spam filtering for mailing lists
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:51:00 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> 
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> >
> >> What's the problem?  Just leave them there and let them expire.
> >
> > (1) As far as I know, they don't "expire".
> >
> > (2) There are legitimate messages that need to be approved
> > occasionally. If there weren't, we could simply drop all
> > messages from non-subscribers.
> 
> Ummm, one thing to note, we don't have spamassassin set to auto-kill 
> anything, you have to setup some sort of filter on your end for that ... 
> with Majordomo2, we have it as an access_rule, but I don't know how to do 
> it with mailman ...

Yes, I noticed that while spamassasin marks email as spam, it still
forwards it to the recipient.  I had to add a rule in my spamassasin
filter to delete those marked as spam.

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