[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam]]]

[William Snow]

not this minute. will take a little to figure out how to do it.

--w


Derek Cicero wrote:

> William Snow wrote:
>
>> we can't.
>>
>> we could maybe integrate spam assassin or something like it...
>
>
> Ok. Do you have a basic estimate of cost, both software and 
> implementation (I assume Allen would do this)?
>
> Derek
>
>>
>> --w
>>
>>
>> Derek Cicero wrote:
>>
>>> William Snow wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not the mailman admin for the lists on that site or I'd do 
>>>> those things in a heartbeat.
>>>> It takes about 1 minute to implement, but I don'thave the password.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, I looked into this and we have two issues here.
>>>
>>> The first issue is that SPAM got onto the mailing list itself, after 
>>> it was accidentally approved by the moderator. This was a user error 
>>> which has been corrected.
>>>
>>> The second issue is figuring out how we can cut down on the actual 
>>> SPAM that is being caught by the moderation process. It's really 
>>> spiked in the last three weeks, so any improvement would be 
>>> welcomed. We use Brightmail for SPAM filtering, yes? How do we add 
>>> our servers to the Brightmail filtering process?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Derek
>>>
>>>>
>>>> --w
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Karyn Ritter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Will,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there someone on your team that can help with this on mailman 
>>>>> side? Allen says he isn't an expert...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Karyn
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam]]
>>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:44:00 -0700
>>>>> From: Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>
>>>>> To: Bret Madhvani <bmadhvani at altastrada.com>
>>>>> CC: Karyn.Ritter at Sun.COM, Allen Gilliland 
>>>>> <allen.gilliland at sun.com>, Derek Cicero <derek.cicero at sun.com>
>>>>> References: <432211AF.2040302 at sun.com> 
>>>>> <4325CAAE.5030709 at altastrada.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Bret ... I just got another message on spam and viruses. Who 
>>>>> should
>>>>> we take this to?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thansk ... Jim
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: [osol-mktg] Please do something about the virus
>>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:04:01 +0200
>>>>> From: Laurent Blume <laurent at elanor.org>
>>>>> To: opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>>>
>>>>> I just got 7 infected emails from that list, and coming from a Sun
>>>>> internal machine:
>>>>>
>>>>> Received: from tonic1.sun.com (unknown [10.10.10.4])
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you please, at the very least, disable file attachments?
>>>>> And allowing posting only from subscribed addresses wouldn't hurt, 
>>>>> either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Laurent
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> opensolaris-mktg mailing list
>>>>> opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ******
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bret Madhvani wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Karyn,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jive Forums can be configured to scan messages for viruses - it 
>>>>>> uses an external tool to perform the scans. Mailman doesn't have 
>>>>>> any specific virus-scanning features; it assumes that this is 
>>>>>> being handled at the MTA level, before the message gets to Mailman.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know how the production machines are configured, so I 
>>>>>> can't say if virus scanning is being performed now. I believe 
>>>>>> only Derek and Allen can answer that question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bret
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karyn Ritter wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bret & Allen,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a way to look into this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Karyn
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>>> Subject: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam]
>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:30:55 -0700
>>>>>>> From: Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>
>>>>>>> To: Karyn Ritter <Karyn.Ritter at Sun.COM>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do we have access to Derek's technical people to check this? The
>>>>>>> consultants, I mean.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>>> Subject: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam
>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:21:55 +0200
>>>>>>> From: Laurent Blume <laurent at elanor.org>
>>>>>>> To: opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it considered a feature that this mailing list is a propagating
>>>>>>> vector not
>>>>>>> only for spam, but for virus as well, both in email and web forms?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2213&tstart=0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /export/home/space/tmp/Important.zip->Important.txt
>>>>>>>                                       Infection: W32/Netsky.Z at mm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not the kind of "viral" marketing the Community is 
>>>>>>> expecting for
>>>>>>> OpenSolaris, I'm sure :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Laurent
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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-- 
--will snow
will.snow at Eng.Sun.COM
Sr. Director, Web Platform Engineering
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://blogs.sun.com/was

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