Re: Please /dev/null html-only mail rather than sending it out on this list

[Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:45:51PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:45:04PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 April 2004 17:26, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > :0 B
> > * H ?? Content-Type: multipart
> > * Content-Type: text/html
> > * ! Content-Type: text/plain
> > * ! ^Received:
> > /dev/null
> > #The Received check is there because I am a postmaster.
> 
> procmail is BAAAAD :)
> 
> we use a really small bit of shell instead
> # we check if message was spoiled by spamassassin in previous
> # round of spamcheck (qmailq).
> 
> preflag=`printf "%s\n" "$input" | $M822FIELD X-Spam-Flag | sed 's/^ //'`
> if [ "$preflag"  = "YES" ]; then
> # .. and if its spammy enough already, we reinject.
> printf "%s\n" "$input" | $FORWARDBIN $FORWARD
>   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>    #so qmail will not do any further deliveries in .qmail file
>    exit 99
>   fi
>   # problem calling inject - temp failure
>  exit 111
> fi
> 
> #
> 
> 
> i cant send HTML only to /dev/null cause Hans Reiser thinks
> ASCII (we are all using) is obsoleted by *ML's ;)

More strong anti-spam rules for the mailing list may help.  As an example
rejecting HTML-only e-mails may be wrong for filtering private e-mail and good
for the reiserfs-list.

> but we do a lil tweakig there and there, changing weights and
> writing new spamassassin rules.
> 
> for example for today spamassassin blocked 162 spam messages
> that were sent to this list ;)
> 
> well some got through. we are not perfect, but i'm working on it
> (being perfect)..
> 
> 
> > Also block mail from IP addresses known to be open relays, open proxies, 
> > rooted boxes, etc.
> 
> its intresting discussion, but lets move it off the list.
> 
> 
> -- 
> "the liberation loophole will make it clear.."
> lex lyamin

-- 
Alex.