Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

On Mon, 11 May 2015, Eray Aslan wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:26:01AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > TL;DR: As of May 17, @gentoo.org will drop incoming spammy mail instead of
> > delivering it. Speak now or hold your peace.
>
> Believe me I understand your pain.  Been there done that.  However,
> dropping mail is never a good idea.  You are mucking with the
> dependebility of the email.  I would never be able to trust my gentoo
> mail if you start dropping spammy mails.  There will always be false
> positives.  I suggest:
>
> - Stop forwarding mail.  Have devs pop their mails to whatever account
>   they like.  I believe gmail -biggest complainer?- provides this
>   option.

Big ol' bag of Nope for me. Using POP/IMAP to get mails from
Gentoo servers to where I actually handle mail is a pain in the
rear end. I already let procmail on woodpecker drop all Mails
with a spam score of >=3. I still get shitloads of spam mail that
makes it through. Hence, I'm currently training my own
SpamAssassin for that bit.

That said, I haven't had a false positive from SA in... years?
Maybe even a decade.

> - If the above option is not OK for whatever reason, at least let us
>   opt-out of the proposed policy of dropping mails provided we do not
>   forward our emails.

I'd be fine with that.

Regards,
Tobias
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