[HCoop-Help] spam and email lists

Clinton Ebadi clinton at unknownlamer.org
Sat Jun 6 14:19:03 EDT 2015


Ryan Wisnesky <wisnesky at gmail.com> writes:

> Indeed, the spam I am receiving is all being marked as 5 through 7.
> Is there any action I need to take?

You can delete it, or leave it to expire normally if your list is set to
do so. Mailman is just giving you a bit of extra information to work
with. I'll likely be setting the threshold down to five soon since I
have yet to see a false-positive rated five.

>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Ryan Wisnesky <wisnesky at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I run a mailing list through hcoop that (I believe) is set to reject
>>> all non-member posts.  However, as the list administrator I still get
>>> emails asking me to approve/deny messages from non-members that
>>> SpamAssassin has identified as spam.  Because these messages are from
>>> non-members I am surprised they get to SpamAssassin at all.  Anyway,
>>> my question is if there is a way to stop receiving these emails from
>>> SpamAssassin.  My account has SpamAssassin turned off; I think
>>> SpamAssassin must be turned on across all hcoop-managed lists.
>> 
>> The new Mailman version we upgraded to integrates SpamAssassin checking
>> into list moderation, and is filtering all mailing list traffic through
>> spamd and rejecting messages that score 7 or higher. This has eliminated
>> almost all moderation work for at least the lists I run. I think it will
>> be safe to drop this to 5 or higher (list members get an automatic -10
>> making it unlikely a list member's messages would be rejected by this).
>> 
>> These are normal list moderation messages, but with additional
>> information. The messages would have been held normally.
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ryan Wisnesky
>>> 
>>> PS I am not subscribed to hcoop-help,  so please include wisnesky at gmail.com on any reply. 
>> 
>> 
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>> * tim_m shakes morty's mind, hoping for a different combination of letters
>> <Morty_md> Sometimes my mind yahtzees instead.
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