On 04/12/2016 03:11 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
It seems that sgi.com is rejecting quite a bit of legitimate mail lately. I've seen a couple of people in the past couple of weeks send stuff that has reached my private in boxes but not the list. Now this one, too.
Yeah, this one wasn't the anti-spam filters that I manage (the barracudas, our private RBL, etc) but spamassassin on oss.sgi.com. So... Dunno. I took a crack at whitelisting Alex's from address in spamassassin (though I haven't looked at it's configs or man pages in about 10 years).
If someone is having to micro-manage the list to prevent rejections of valid email then that is bad...
So true. I only happened to notice because I had someone (I forget who it was several years ago) tweak SA on oss so that rejections get forwarded to me. The idea was I'd look at those (stuff that the cudas missed but spamassassin caught) and use that info to update our filters (the filters that benefit everyone at SGI, not just oss).
Anyway, I don't always have the bandwidth to look at every email SA on oss rejects and update spam filters (if possible) and just happened to notice this one and that it wasn't spam.
I am a lot more aggressive with the filters for oss because it's such a sore-thumb-target for spammers. For instance, there are large swaths of yahoo IP space being blocked now (for oss only) because over the years I only found one legit sender to oss from a yahoo IP - the rest was all spam/phish. But I've only dropped in yahoo IP ranges that I was seeing spam from. I've gotten aggressive with some Chinese IP space too for similar reasons. If any of the senders you know of having trouble might be in yahoo or chinese IP space let me know and I can look in the logs, but I'd bet a doughnut that if they didn't get a bounce then they're running afoul of spamassassin 'n not the filters I manage. :-(
There was talk a while back of taking oss out of SGI and hosting it somewhere in "Da cloud!" (tm) and having someone else in the xfs community own it, wasn't there? Anyone still looking into that?
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