[Mailman-Developers] Google Summer of Code - Spam Defense

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Eino Tuominen wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Barry Warsaw writes:
>> > Mailman to something like SpamAssassin.  One of course would be  
>> a   > fairly simple handler to recognize SA headers and do the  
>> appropriate   > thing.
>> Why have a Handler when you can already use header scanning in the
>> privacy filters?  Ie, isn't this a documentation or UI problem rather
>> than a Handler problem?
>
> I agree, it's a UI problem. What I'd like is that privacy/spam  
> administration page had two checkboxes for "Filter obvious spam" and  
> "Filter propable spam" (or smthng like that). These would be handled  
> internally like spam filter regexp, only difference would be that  
> those regexps would be configured in mm_cfg.py. And there shouldn't  
> be Reject as a possible action for these rules.
>
> In mm_cfg.py site admin could enable/disable/hide these and set  
> default actions for these rules.
>
> That way list admins could easily e.g. discard obvious spam messages  
> and hold probable ones.

When I translate that to Mailman 3-speak, I agree. :)

- -Barry

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