Filtering junk on inn-bugs

[Bill Davidsen]

Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
> Most of the junk email I receive I never even see.  (60-80%
> is deleted, and I am a fanatic about reducing false positives.)
> 
> It is apparent that most junk that makes it through is
> mail sent to open mail lists which are in my whitelist.
> 
> inn-bugs at isc.org is in my whitelist and is adding an
> increasing amount of junk to my inbox.  (About 5 a day
> last week, but yesterday there were 12.)
> 
> I think the inn-bugs@ is an important list to monitor.
> 
> Upon inspecting the junk received that way, my first attempt
> at filtering is rejecting messages also To or CC to
> a -request at isc.org address.  (This rejects about 50%
> of the junk recently sent there, and will NEVER have
> a false-positive.)
> 
> I'd also like to reject all HTML email there, since
> that is highly unlikely to have a false positive.  But
> Ecartis apparently tries to be "helpful" and creates
> a text version of HTML email.  Is anyone considering
> turning that off, or returning HTML email as undeliverable?
> Can E-cartis add a X-Original-Content-type: or something?
> 
> Anyone else have suggestions for filtering junk from email
> sent to open list addresses when reducing false positives is
> crucial?  inn-bugs@ is not the only open list I subscribe to.

One of the rare times I find HTML useful is for highlighting lines in 
log files I'm mailing, for what it's worth. On the other hand, any 
message which has a URL in the body (not sig) is suspect in my eyes.

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