spam email requests for infra list - suggestions

[Michael Scherer]

Le lundi 15 juin 2015 à 06:57 -0400, Eyal Edri a écrit :
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Scherer" <mscherer at redhat.com>
> > To: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:42:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: spam email requests for infra list - suggestions
> > 
> > Le lundi 15 juin 2015 à 03:52 -0400, Eyal Edri a écrit :
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > > > To: "Michael Scherer" <mscherer at redhat.com>, "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> > > > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 1:41:03 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: spam email requests for infra list - suggestions
> > > > 
> > > > On 06/12/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > > > > Le jeudi 11 juin 2015 à 23:58 +0300, Itamar Heim a écrit :
> > > > >> On 06/10/2015 11:20 AM, Eyal Edri wrote:
> > > > >>> Hey,
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> since i got added as admin to the infra list, i started seeing
> > > > >>> multiple
> > > > >>> spam
> > > > >>> requests to get accepted to the list.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> something happened past week or so, that spam emails started being
> > > > >> sent
> > > > >> or not filtered to -owner's of mailing lists.
> > > > >> I don't remember seeing that before.
> > > > >
> > > > > Or they were filtered before on your mailbox and sent since the
> > > > > beginning ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Looking at the settings, there is:
> > > > > forward_auto_discards = 1
> > > > >
> > > > > (not sure where to find it in the UI).
> > > > >
> > > > > Could setting this to false/0 be a solution ?
> > > > 
> > > > its under privacy/sender filters
> > > > "Should messages from non-members, which are automatically discarded, be
> > > > forwarded to the list moderator?"
> > > > 
> > > > automatically discarded here means "known spammers with fixed sender
> > > > addresses", not spam.
> > > 
> > > i've set that, but i'm still getting spam requests.
> > > the problem isn't with messages sent to the list, the problem
> > > is spammers sending requests to be added to the list,
> > > and i didn't see any option to block, other than maintaining manually a
> > > blacklist of emails.
> > 
> > Are the emails tagged by SA in some way ?
> 
> yes, in the "attend to open requests section" you see
> 
> 	Reason:	SpamAssassin identified this message as possible spam (score 4)
> 
> and most of this has score between 3 to 4, and marked as spam.
> can you block it with SA before it reaches the list?

Yep, but then I would want to make sure that there is no false
positives.

This weekend, I found that one of the dnsbl I use at home was disabled
since 6 months, giving 3 points of spam to every mail I received, thus
causing a bit more false positives than usual ( surprisingly, not so
much ). 

I will take a look on how to do that with the installation on ovirt.org

-- 
Michael Scherer
Sysadmin, Community Infrastructure and Platform, OSAS

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