Hi Don, On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Hans wrote: > > What about spamassassin? Wouldn't spamassassin and its databases not be the > > better way? I made good experiences with spamassassin on my mail servers. > > We do spamassassin with a huge set of rules. I don't think we're > currently using clamav in the BTS, but we are using it for Debian > mailing lists.
For the record, it would certainly be very welcome. We have many email providers that reject (and not silently discard) those messages at SMTP time (including gmail) and we also have many such emails forwarded from the BTS to the PTS. The result is that many PTS users have been unsubscribed because of all the mail that we sent them was bounced for 3 consecutive days (see #841061). I recently deployed a quick hack to teach the PTS to ignore bounces that look like bounces generated by spam/virus/executable attachment but it would be better if the BTS did not forward them at all. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/