upgrade problem [was: simplicity vs safety with complexity]

[Greg McCann]

On 1/26/2005 at 6:59 PM David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

>It sounds like you do all the wordlist maintenance and your users are
>strictly readers.  Is that correct?  Let me know so I can try some
>experiments to learn more about the trouble you ran into.

For the most part, yes.  Nobody else does hands-on maintenance, but I have experimented with configuring some users' .procmailrc files to automatically score email from certain trusted senders as non-spam.

For example:

# to keep ham current, autoscore some trusted mail as ham
:0c:bogofilter.lck
* 1^0 ^From:.*trusted_sender
* 1^0 ^From:.*trusted_sender_2
| bogofilter -n

# score for spamicity
:0fw
# conditions for bypassing bogofilter
* 1^0
* -1^0 ? test $CLASSCSTR = "my.local.class_c"
* -1^0 ? test $CLASSCSTR = "another.local.class_c"
* -1^0 ? test $REVIPSTR = "1.0.0.127"
* -1^0 ^From:.*trusted_sender_3
* -1^0 ^From:.*trusted_sender_4
| bogofilter -epl

I have probably pushed the limits of bogofilter's flexibility in my attempts to accommodate my users.

Best regards,


Greg McCann