discuss: Subscription Validation
Subject:
Re: Subscription Validation
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
9 Sep 2002 17:32:55 -0000
Message-Id: <20020909173251.GD14545@riva.ucam.org>
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 10:29:52PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> SpamAssassin looks for things typical for spam -- and it just so happens
> that autoresponders (like those used for subscribing to mail lists) share
> some of those characteristics. That is not a bug in SpamAssassin, but a
> general problem which no application can solve perfectly.
>
> You *can* tweak the rules to, for example, recognize mailman responses as
> not spam. That seems to be the only thing to do here.
SpamAssassin already has a rule to score up MailMan responses:
body MAILMAN_CONFIRM /We have received a request .*subscription of your email address.* to the .* mailing list/
describe MAILMAN_CONFIRM A MailMan confirm-your-address message
# Compensation for common false positives.
score MAILMAN_CONFIRM -4.0
(I'm using the same version as Mark.)
The last time I subscribed to an LDP mailing list it was running on
ezmlm, so I can't immediately check whether the current responses match
the regex above. Can somebody have a look?
--
Colin Watson ####@####.####
