13 Dec
2006
13 Dec
'06
2:03 p.m.
Jay West wrote:
Before you say "just kill all emails with graphic attachments"... keep
in mind that these spamassassin machines do their job for thousands of
domains that I host, not just classiccmp.org. So just killing all
emails with graphic attachments is simply not an option. If anyone can
give me a few ideas that will work well for ISP/hosting-class
environments, I'd love to hear it. Off-list please! Thanks in advance
for any advice.
Jay:
It is my casual observation that the classiccmp.org lists are hosted at
Dreamhost. I don't know exactly what the relationship between you and
Dreamhost is (that is, whether you are simply a customer like I am or
have friends that work there.. or work there yourself), but it might be
possible for you to talk to somebody there and get some special rules
inserted for just the classiccmp lists. It is my understanding that
some ability to write custom procmail rules before it hits the mailman
server is possible. Whether or not Dreamhost can/will do it is probably
the subject of some debate.. generally, I've found them to be quite
cooperative in setting up "weird stuff" if it makes sense and is not too
overly hard.
I've been having the same problem on my personal listserv. I just trash
any mail containing graphics. As you pointed out, however, that would
have interesting results on a public mail host.
-fedl