Re: spam sent to my OD address

On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Rob Braun wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:47:16AM -0400, Joe Auty wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to this list, so I apologize in advance if this subject is
>> not terribly appropriate for this list, but I've been getting an
>> increasing number of spam messages sent to my OD address. Do you guys
>> have any plans to install SpamAssassin or anything like it I can use
>> to filter out spam? These messages are becoming a bit of a pain....
>
> A better question is do YOU have any plans to do anything about OD  
> spam?
> I sent out a request many months ago for a primary OD admin.  I got a
> couple of responses along the lines of "I'd like to help OD, but I  
> don't
> want the responsibility".  So, you can try to get a hold on one of the
> half dozen intermittently available people with administrative  
> privleges
> on the OD machines at admin@.
>
> That said, you have sftp access to the OD machines, procmail is the  
> local
> delivery agent, and spamassassin is installed on OS X server by  
> default
> it would appear.  Feel free to volunteer to tackle the mail situation
> on OD, or cobble together your own solution.
>


Hi Rob,

If I had root access to the server, I would volunteer to help.  
However, it appears as if OS X Server is setup to use with Amavisd  
which runs as a daemon. Additionally, any changes I would make to the  
SpamAssassin configuration to support including spam status and  
scores in email headers would also likely require root access.

Do you think there is anything I can do beyond creating my own  
whitelists and blacklists using procmail recipes that wouldn't  
require root access?





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