Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] [infra] Anti-spam changes: removal of malware patrol and other older ClamAV rules
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:09:15
Message-Id: robbat2-20200911T190156-419869176Z@orbis-terrarum.net
1 Hi,
2
3 As a result of a recent high-impact [1] false positive spam detection in
4 Gentoo mail, we've disabled using the MalwarePatrol ruleset in Clamav
5 for spam detection for all inbound mail to @gentoo.org
6
7 All other old rulesets that haven't seen an update in more than 1 year
8 were also cleaned out, as they seem to be no longer available upstream
9 or explicitly no longer updated.
10
11 [1] Notably, MalwarePatrol's basic subscription got an entry matching
12 any mail with "https://docs.google.com" in it, which ended up blocking
13 some mail about GSOC payments this year. Upstream MalwarePatrol provides
14 minimal workarounds for that only: see "False positives" on:
15 https://www.malwarepatrol.net/non-commercial/
16
17 --
18 Robin Hugh Johnson
19 Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
20 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
21 GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
22 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136

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