On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:25 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:19 -0400, Elaine Ashton wrote:
> > Filtering spam is likely one of the better points of the software we  
> > have on hand as between the postfix rbls and the spamassassin rule  
> > sets, we punt about 60-95% of all mail coming at the system on any  
> > given day. The thing is that user/subscriber/whitelist management  
> > across 300+ lists is not something simply done in the current model  
> > and wildcards leave holes the size of small countries through which  
> > anyone with sendmail and a little, a very little, knowledge could  
> > drive anything they wanted through. I'd be happy to demonstrate this  
> > for anyone who doubts how easily mail can be spoofed.
> 
> Ah, that's the part I didn't understand.  I didn't realize that you
> already use postfix/spamassassin, and that was still not adequate.
> Thanks for explaining.

On a related note, I apologize that my mail to you and Alan came across
as counter-productive and confrontational.  I'll try to keep in mind
that your team is very resource constrained, and that it's really easy
for us on the sidelines to build bike-sheds. :-)

-Seb


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