Re: GroupStudy Mail Issues

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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