On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
Is there a way *I* can without the ISP doing anything?
Yes. Set up your spam filters under Privacy options... then
Spam filters.
There is nothing called spam filters in privacy options.
Then your ISP has installed a pretty non-standard version of
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
But this isn't useful to me. Oh, I'm sure some of the really bad spam
would go away, but this is a health list and so there are *a lot* of false
positives because we mention a lot of spam-like keywords. So I'd have to
set the spam level pretty high.
It
On 12/10/07, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
There are alternatives such as SpamBayes which may be easier to
integrate.
Everything is being done by her ISP, so I don't know that it's useful
to discuss alternative solutions. Either way, she's got to live with
whatever they give her, at least up
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
False positive means it's legit mail that is in my spam folder. Using my
ISP's defaults.
Sounds like you need to talk to your ISP about how those defaults can
be changed to be something more suitable for you.
Anything in moderation for MM must be clicked
On 12/10/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Mailman sends a summary every morning with the From: and Subject: of
the held posts waiting moderator action.
Where is this option? I don't currently get these, but I'd like to...
--
Best regards,
Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:
On 12/10/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Mailman sends a summary every morning with the From: and Subject: of
the held posts waiting moderator action.
Where is this option? I don't currently get these, but I'd like to...
There is no option for this per se.
On 12/10/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If you aren't getting the summary, either cron isn't running checkdbs
or you are so diligent at dealing with held messages that there never
are any outstanding when checkdbs runs.
Duh... ok, there is no daily cron job for it (I had someone
Cyndi Norwitz writes:
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 08:49:30 -0800
From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SpamAssassin is much better integrated in the MTA ahead of Mailman, but
if they want to integrate SpamAssassin with Mailman at some point,
refer them to
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
I thought you earlier wrote that SpamAssassin *is* being run by the ISP,
Correct.
but can't be used with Mailman.
No, that they haven't taken the steps to integrate it with MM yet and have
no immediate plans to do so.
They don't need to. So long
Brad Knowles writes:
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
I thought you earlier wrote that SpamAssassin *is* being run by the
ISP,
Correct.
but can't be used with Mailman.
No, that they haven't taken the steps to integrate it with MM yet and have
no immediate
From: Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:24:32 +0900
Almost. If you worry about false positives, you can ask them to make
sure that the spam level header which gives a spamminess rating
according to the number of stars (eg, X-Spam-Level: ** is
Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
Yes. Set up your spam filters under Privacy options... then Spam
filters.
There is nothing called spam filters in privacy options.
In the admin interface, there should be four sub-pages under Privacy
options...
* Subscription rules
* Sender filters
*
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:21:01 -0800
From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
There is nothing called spam filters in privacy options.
In the admin interface, there should be four sub-pages under Privacy
options...
Yeah, duh, somehow I missed that :)
Does
Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
The spam sent to the posting address will be in my moderation window.
Mixed with the legit posts. That is the problem. Saying this is spam so
I'm sending it to you for moderation is not helpful. The stuff is already
in moderation.
How about rejecting or discarding
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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:21:01 -0800
From
Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
I agree. There is no easy way I see of doing what I want. I guess I need
to see what all the options are and play with it for a while and see what
my ISP does.
So if I understand, you want spam filtering to apply only to
non-members who aren't in accept_these_nonmembers.
Cyndi Norwitz writes:
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:34:45 -0800
From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about rejecting or discarding non-member posts instead of holding
them. does that help?
If the spam problem is too great, I may have to disallow non-member posts
except
From: Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:44:29 +0900
If the spam problem is too great, I may have to disallow non-member posts
except for people who write me asking to be put on an approved list. I
have several regular posters who are not
Cyndi Norwitz writes:
This will not work in my situation for more than a certain percentage of my
non-member posts. The details aren't important (to this list anyway).
Sure, but you're being nibbled to death by mice. Everything that you
can offload onto other people is more time for you to
From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 01:53:21 -0600
I was talking about moving just your mailing lists, not all your ISP
services. Of course you could link those two if you want, but there
are plenty of mailing list only providers that you could at least
I was talking about moving just your mailing lists, not all your ISP
services. Of course you could link those two if you want, but there
are plenty of mailing list only providers that you could at least
check out.
--
Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 8, 2007, at
Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
Well, I'm happy with my ISP and have no plans to move *again*. But I will
ask them again if they can do it. The reply I got from them was: In the
future Sonic.net could integrate SpamAssassin into Mailman but that's not
currently on anyones plate.
SpamAssassin is much
Mark Sapiro wrote:
if they want to integrate SpamAssassin with Mailman at some point,
refer them to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=640518group_id=103atid=300103.
I can endorse this patch ... I've used it for years and it works great.
david
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System i ... for when
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 08:49:30 -0800
From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SpamAssassin is much better integrated in the MTA ahead of Mailman, but
if they want to integrate SpamAssassin with Mailman at some point,
refer them to
Hi
I am not very sound in mailman configuration.
I have a list in which anyone can post. Hold the positing from non
members.
Now, I am getting everyday about 100s of spam emails in that list. Please
advise how to deal with this?
Regards,
Vinita Aggarwal
-Original Message-
From:
Vinita Aggarwal wrote:
I have a list in which anyone can post. Hold the positing from non
members.
Now, I am getting everyday about 100s of spam emails in that list. Please
advise how to deal with this?
It is best to start a new topic on a list by creating a new message,
not by replying to
On 12/7/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote:
Now, I am getting everyday about 100s of spam emails in that
list. Please
advise how to deal with this?
Mailman doesn't have great tools for this. Instead, you should
configure your mail server to reject or discard the spam messages
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:35:56 -0600
From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/7/07, Vinita Aggarwal wrote:
Now, I am getting everyday about 100s of spam emails in that list. Please
advise how to deal with this?
Mailman doesn't have great tools for this. Instead, you
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:27:11 -0600
From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailman doesn't have great tools for this. Instead, you should
configure your mail server to reject or discard the spam messages
before they ever get to Mailman.
Any ideas how to do this
On 12/7/07, Vinita Aggarwal wrote:
Now, I am getting everyday about 100s of spam emails in that list. Please
advise how to deal with this?
Mailman doesn't have great tools for this. Instead, you should
configure your mail server to reject or discard the spam messages
before they ever get
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