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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:35:53
Message-Id: 5551048C.6080409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail by Michael Orlitzky
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4 On 05/11/2015 09:31 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
5 > On 05/11/2015 03:29 AM, Eray Aslan wrote:
6 >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:26:01AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson
7 >> wrote:
8 >>> TL;DR: As of May 17, @gentoo.org will drop incoming spammy mail
9 >>> instead of delivering it. Speak now or hold your peace.
10 >>
11 >> Believe me I understand your pain. Been there done that.
12 >> However, dropping mail is never a good idea. You are mucking
13 >> with the dependebility of the email.
14 >
15 > Agreed.
16 >
17 > Is there some reason a pre-queue filter (with amavisd-new)
18 > wouldn't work? Then we could reject the spammy messages (at SMTP
19 > time) instead of silently dropping them.
20 >
21 >
22
23 Could it be an alternative to move the messages flagged as spam into
24 an own folder that isn't forwarded? at least that means it doesn't
25 impact operations for those using it locally and the mail is still
26 around, if a webmail interface or something was used it could be
27 accessed through that for the forwarding users.
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31 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>