Re: GroupStudy Mail Issues

CentOS 5.x (whichever is the latest).

Thanks for your help!!!

Paul

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Calin C. <calin_at_engineer.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I think everybody here agree with donations if this will be the case.
>
> Paul, I can put together a test environment if needed. What linux distro
> and MTA should be used with DSPAM or MailScanner?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Calin C.
>
>
>
> On 05/03/2011 05:07 AM, JB Poplawski wrote:
>
>> Postini and everyone chips in a few bucks?
>>
>> 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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