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[Tom Fillmore <address@concealed>]

Nice...  I will definitely look at that.

Thanks for the quick response!

Tom


The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
- Baha'u'llah

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On Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 at 10:56 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) 
<address@concealed> wrote:

> On 22/12/2021 18:55, Tom Fillmore wrote:
>
> > Hi, there -
> >
> > > Thanks, that's what I was afraid of....
> > >
> > > Unfortunately for me that doesn't work very well - I run bahai.email, 
> > > which has about 160 lists for different communities of the Baha'i Faith 
> > > (bahai.org). It is getting a steady increase in the number of 
> > > list-specific spam from the same 'people' using slightly different 
> > > addresses with the same human name on a growing number of the lists. 
> > > I'm interpreting this to mean that all the spams come from the same 
> > > peoples or bot network. We're talking a steady increase, here.
> > >
> > > I'll see if I can create something that monitors incoming spam, 
> > > captures it into table(s) including headers for additional forensics, 
> > > distributes new blockfiles per list, allows for manual review of what 
> > > it's captured then submits the addresses to various blacklisting 
> > > services. If it proves worthwhile I'll create a git repository for it. 
> > > I already have Postfix compare all incoming addresses to several 
> > > blacklist sites, we are talking about those that get through but are 
> > > tagged as spam by spamassassin. I know it's possible to have them 
> > > rejected automatically but I don't want to drop legitimate posts with 
> > > weird but OK content, and/or put a legit subscribers email onto a 
> > > blocklist service just because they send something spamassassin doesn't 
> > > like.
> > >
> > > Anyway, if anyone knows of a project like this please reply with a 
> > > location. Don't want to reinvent the wheel- my time is limited, but 
> > > I've got to do something.
> > >
> > > Thanks, everyone, have a happy holiday season but please play it safe. 
> > > It's better to miss a gathering than be on a ventilator. :)
>
> Hello Tom,
>
> if you have the blocklist addresses in a SQL database, you can define 
> search filters in Sympa which can be used in a scenari to implement your 
> blocklist.
>
> Regards
>
> Racke
>
> > > > Tom Fillmore
> > > >
> > > > southern California
> > >
> > > > The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
> >
> > -   Baha'u'llah
> >
> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 at 1:34 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) 
> > > address@concealed wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 21/12/2021 23:20, Tom Fillmore wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, there -
> > > >
> > > > > Am I correct in saying that each list has it's own blocklist and it 
> > > > > is not a centralized SQL table?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry if I'm missing the obvious.  :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Tom Fillmore
> > > > >
> > > > > southern California
> > > > >
> > > > > > The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > /- Baha'u'llah/
> > >
> > > Hello Tom,
> > >
> > > the blocklist is located in search_filters/blocklist.txt for each list 
> > > (in list_data directory).
> > >
> > > It is not present in the database.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Racke
> > >
> > > Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
> > >
> > > Debian and Sympa administration.
>
> Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
>
> Debian and Sympa administration.