On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
At 14:54 2003-07-15 -0400, Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote:
I've got a user who is misusing spamassassin as follows:
Only use it for its whitelist capability. (But wait, there's more...)
Uh, so you're saying that you're NOT using any other facilities of SA, just
whitelisting?
OK, admittedly, by virtue of usually running SA, some other things could
be caught to counter the wide-open whitelists for domains
If the "user" is doing this with their OWN email, why does it matter to
you? Or is it (I can't quite follow the rest of your message) that the
results of their own whitelist failures are causing SA to incorporate those
messages into spam checks for OTHER users of your host? If so, sounds as
if you have a major beef to take up with the SA development team so that
they can fix this obvious security issue. The SA development team is over
Because the user is complaining to me. Yup, I'm now supporting a users
procmail that I don't "believe in". But also, I'm thinking efficiency.
I'd like to get back a few cycles on my machine.
So for people who generally only converse with a known, albeit lengthy and
perhaps not completely defined list addresses the question is, is there
a better way of filtering. I'm thinking just pull SA out of this equation
have a file with regexp addresses that procmail tests all in a single test
and be done with it.
Uh, you can certainly set up a whitelist in procmail, and the overhead will
be considerably less than whatever SA is subjecting you to, but maintaining
a whitelist is still _work_. Is this for a single USER, or for the whole
HOST?
Ya, but then it's the users prob to maintain the whitelist, not mine. I just
set up the programming/filtering rules
Hit the archives of this list (linked right from the procmail.org website),
and search for whitelist or greenlist, and you'll find numerous hits,
including some in the past week or two.
Thanks. I'll give it a shot
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