spam filter

[Dan Yasny]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 November, 2012 8:19:22 PM
> Subject: Re: spam filter
> 
> On 11/06/2012 01:15 AM, Dan Yasny wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com> To: "Dan Yasny"
> >> <dyasny at redhat.com> Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org> Sent: Tuesday, 6
> >> November, 2012 11:13:04 AM Subject: Re: spam filter
> >> 
> >> On 11/06/2012 07:45 AM, Dan Yasny wrote:
> >>> What do we currently have?
> >> 
> >> nothing. human moderators...
> > 
> > I mean what MTA is used, do we control it? Can we configure it,
> > install plugins etc
> 
> We're currently hosting Mailman and Postfix ourselves.
> 
> postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.i686
> mailman-2.1.12-17.el6.i686
> 
> My biggest concern with a spam filter is that it is another service
> oVirt Infra has to own and maintain. Is there someone interested in
> helping with ongoing support for it?
> 
> One reason this matters is that eventually we could have the option
> of
> using OpenShift for Mailman, and I don't know if we could use the
> same
> spam filter setup. Actually, we could if we had our MTA on its own
> host
> doing relay for Mailman (currently OpenShift doesn't support running
> an
> MTA/relay as they are EC2 based, and EC2 mail relays get
> blacklisted.)
> But that means maintaining our own MTA and spam filter on one of our
> hosted VMs indefinitely. Are we prepared to do that?
> 
> Part of my questioning is that I haven't run a spam filter service
> before, so it's Great Black Hole of Knowledge to me right now.

Actually, postfix has quite a few built in features to battle spam, without additional services. Given access, I could probably tighten those as much as possible, and see if that's enough to get rid of 90% of the spam. In my experience, it usually is.

> 
> - Karsten
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Regards, 

Dan Yasny 
Red Hat Israel 
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