Re: GroupStudy Mail Issues

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Thanks for doing this man. If you're ever in Milwaukee drinks are on me!
JB

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Paul Borghese <pborghese_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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