Re: GroupStudy Mail Issues

Actually there is a component I need. I would like to have a spam solution
that contains a web front end. All messages to the list will first go
through the spam filter. If it is marked SPAM, the message will be placed
in a quarantine queue which can be reviewed by a moderator.

There are two I have been looking at:

DSPAM
MailScanner

But I am open to suggestions for others.

If anyone wants to setup one of these options in a LInux environment and
tell me what they think, that would save me quite a lot of work.

Thanks!

Paul Borghese

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Hashir Amin <hashng_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Paul, let us know if we can help in anyway.
> Hash
> #16818 RS/SP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Borghese <pborghese_at_gmail.com>
> Sender: nobody_at_groupstudy.com
> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 17:10:54
> To: <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Reply-To: Paul Borghese <pborghese_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: GroupStudy Mail Issues
>
> I have been told by a number of people SPAM has made it on the list. I
> would like to apologize for any inconvenience. The GroupStudy software is
> a
> bunch of hacked software I wrote almost 12 years ago and definitely needs
> some loving.
>
> The current spam solution we have been using was installed in 2003. It is
> a
> very easy solution. In a nutshell a first time poster to the list is sent a
> confirmation e-mail. The poster must respond to the confirmation e-mail
> before the list will accept the message. After the first confirmation, the
> address is whitelisted. Using this method we block about 30K SPAM
> messages/day on the list. An alternative would be to simply only allow
> subscribed e-mails to post. But I found a number of people preferred to
> post from accounts that were not subscribed.
>
> I have spamassassin running on the server to filter my private e-mails.
> But
> I found with the rate of messages arriving for the list, spamassassin had a
> hard time keeping up and the list would end up dropping messages.
>
> Recently a spammer started using my e-mail address to forward messages to
> the list. Because I was one of the whitelisted addresses, the messages
> proceeded through the list. I am now blocking messages from my primary
> e-mail account to help prevent issues.
>
> The good news is I am working on a major upgrade to GroupStudy. It will
> take time, but I promise things will get better.
>
> Paul Borghese
>
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