Filtering junk on inn-bugs
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Jul 27 19:39:14 UTC 2004
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.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen at tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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