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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Maia Mailgard down?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:35:01 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Because all my [email protected] email is forwarded to
[email protected], I don't have any way of training the spam filter. Is
there a way I can use a global one?
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Is there any way we can return to whatever we were using before Maia
> > mailgard? Maia is patently NOT working ... it's fundamentally broken in
> > some way, and isn't blocking any spam. The interface for Baysian
> > filtering is also awkward and darned near unusable. In a couple months
> > we're going to be trying to do the PostgreSQL 8.2 release which means
> > that we need the @postgresql.org e-mail addresses working ... and right
> > now they're all receiving a flood of unfiltered spam, making them
> > unusable.
>
> Actually, all MAIA is is a front-end over what we were using before
> (amavisd + spamassassin) to allow individual mailboxes to configure
> themselves, instead of one big site-wide setting ... I'm getting a
> *trickle* of spam right now, but I've spent the past week or so going
> through and training the Bayesian database ... in fact, under the old
> system, those 46 messages that are currently quarantined in your cache
> would have been delivered, instead of quarantined ... in the
> @postgresql.org one that I monitor, there are >7k messages currently in
> spam-quarantine that normally would have been passed through to the system
> ...
>
> Not sure what you are finding awkward about the interface, but if you go
> in and just turn on all the various checks, but *disable* the
> quarantining, so that it just label's and passing everything over to you
> to filter, you will have exactly the same thing in place that was there
> before we added the interface for per-user settings ...
>
> Please note ... at *no time* did we ever reject spam for any mailbox,
> except those for the mailing lists themselves, which majordomo is setup to
> do ... so if you are seeing more now then before, its because we are being
> hit with more now that are passing through spamassassin ...
>
> Note that unlike the ~60 messages in the cache for your mailbox right now
> (12 unconfirmed non-spam, 46 unconfirmed spam), the stuff that I go
> through is right now sitting at ~10k, and I generally spend about a half
> hour in the evening going through it ... I generally care about
> unconfirmed-spam between 5 and 10, ignoring most above that ... and
> unconfirmed non-spam between 0 and 5 ...
>
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