list spam

[David Relson]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:01:14 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> >> Might it not be a good idea to hardcode in a fershur spam indicator
> >on> the string ".exe" :-)
> >
> > Hello Glenn,
> >
> > Easy to say, not so easy to do, AFAIK.  Correcting the problem is on
> > the todo list, but bogofilter and live are presently higher on the
> > list...
> 
> As a band-aid, I have reconfigured the bogofilter-announce,
> bogofilter-dev and bogofilter lists hosted at bogofilter.org (David,
> it's the section "Content Filtering") to only allow these MIME types:
> 
> multipart/alternative      <- I'm not sure if we need that, but as
> it's
>                               David's list, I'm not going to
>                               experiment
> multipart/mixed
> multipart/signed
> message/rfc822
> text/plain
> application/pgp-signature
> application/x-gzip
> application/x-bzip2
> application/x-sh
> text/x-patch
> 
> Any types not on the list will be removed.
> 
> This allows _all_ legal mail that has come through the bogofilter and
> bogofilter-dev lists as long as my archives go back (several weeks),
> if attaching a text file (log or something), make sure that your
> mailer lists the content type as text/plain rather than
> application/octet-stream.
> 
> text/html is not on the list and hence disallowed. Mailman will
> automatically convert a multipart that's left with only one part to a
> regular single-part mail.
> 
> If you think that's too narrow, let me know.
> 
> > At present, I need to learn how to rework the configuration so that
> > virus detection (like amavisd or clamav) can be used.  If you have
> > knowledge of such matters, speak up!
> 
> Here!
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Andree

I hadn't thought of that approach.  It sounds like a reasonable
band-aid.  Thanks.