[Linux-aus] PSA: Messages sent through LA mailing lists being classified as SPAM

[Mark Foster]

In the case of the SMX solution the error message returned is very descriptive of the reason the message was rejected (without identifying the trigger of course). This is how I detected the problem in the first place - mailman advising me of the bounces it had received.


On 14 January 2016 11:32:54 AM NZDT, Stephen Rothwell <lca at rothwell.id.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:57:31 +1000 Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net>
>wrote:
>>
>> > Their spam engines are commercial in nature and whilst pretty
>> > accurate, do false-positive occasionally. It suggests that
>something
>> > about the email content/payload matches an email previously
>reported
>> > as spam to one of the engines concerned.  
>> 
>> I run my own Spamassassin install and I've also had to whitelist
>> linux-aus otherwise many messages end up classified as spam.  This
>> isn't unique to linux-aus though, it affects many mailing lists.
>
>It would be nice if these commercial spam engines told the
>(non)receivers of email that they dropped as much information as
>spamassassin does ... assuming that the receiver wants that
>information.
>
>-- 
>Cheers,
>Stephen Rothwell
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