[Mailman-Users] Best way to slow down all the spam to my lists?

[Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]

Thanks for the responses Carl and Bruce,

I've been getting about 20 per day.  Some days more.  The noise is way
higher than the signal level here.  It's a low-used email list.

I'll try out filtering at the MTA level and see how it goes.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:34 AM Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:

> On 12/12/2019 9:46 AM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:
> > I'm the system admin (though I'm not great at it).  I have a problem with
> > spam.  Hundreds of spam messages are posted to my lists each week.
>
> (What's a acceptable level? I wouldn't spend many hours just to eliminate
> 3
> spams a day.)
>
> > Is that the best way to do what I need?
>
> I'd go for #1, filtering at the MTA level, so that mailman generally has
> less to do, for some ideas-
>
> https://www.howtoforge.com/spam-control-for-postfix
> https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/block-email-spam-postfix
>
> By implementing some of these, you may decide that spam-assassin isn't
> necessary.
>
> Later,
>
> z!
>
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