From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45498 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] contrib/hashcash.el spam fighter Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:50:15 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <02Jun24.115740edt.119250@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun24.151839edt.119751@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun25.104630edt.119271@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun28.122222edt.119118@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun28.172137edt.119392@gateway.intersystems.com> <87sn346jjb.fsf@home.lan> <02Jul1.111151edt.119355@gateway.intersystems.com> <87sn332wie.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> <02Jul1.142847edt.119166@gateway.intersystems.com> <87ofdq76ll.fsf@home.lan> <02Jul2.112452edt.119459@gateway.intersystems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025635966 4117 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 18:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PSla-00014I-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:52:46 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17PSjg-0000Mz-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:51:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA07375 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:50:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 26156 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2002 18:50:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26151 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2002 18:50:27 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 18:50:27 -0000 Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g62IoCwF032478; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:50:14 +0200 Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020702:karl@charcoal.com:ac5400d7d589bf71 X-Hashcash: 020702:ding@gnus.org:4f0f366eded7bbc5 In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:28:07 -0400") Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,AWL version=2.20 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45498 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45498 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: >> the stuff, I'm now using SpamAssassin connected via SpamAssassMilter >> to Sendmail which seems to be quite effective > > Could you show us your configuration bits for both Gnus and sendmail? > A cookbook would be appreciated. I recompiled sendmail with milter support, installed spamassassin from RPM and compiled and installed spamassassin-milter, started spamassassin and spamassassin-milter, and added INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass/spamass.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') to sendmail.mc. I then use Cyrus Sieve to move X-Sam-Flag: YES messages into a separate mailbox. Voila. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/spamass-milt/ http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/milter.html http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/milterconfig.html http://www.milter.org/ http://www.spamassassin.org > I have extensive anti-spam split rules which are reasonably effective, > but the spammer crowd is working diligently to come up with > ever-harder cases to trap. The days of simply tossing "anything > lacking To or Cc naming myself" are long gone. Yup, I have started to realize this as well... The neat thing with SpamAssassin is that it incorporates many anti-spam measures; it uses the various DNS-based black lists I used to use (mostly useless) and Razor's Vipul and many other mechanisms as well. The only thing I dislike is that SpamAssassin-Milter rewrites message bodies, but I'll contribute a patch to fixes that as soon as I've written it.