spam filter

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Yasny" <dyasny at redhat.com>
> To: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:28:36 AM
> Subject: Re: spam filter
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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.
> 

A simple method a friend of mind is using is redirecting
his emails via gmail. They are doing very good filtering
with almost zero extra work needed.

So basically he's emailing everything to gmail and it
has auto-forward to some address. The result is bright and clean ;)

> > 
> > - Karsten
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