Re: [ADMIN] Spam filtering

That's a lot of spam!

I'm not seeing footers on the emails at all.

Two or three emails did get through the filters, two from "Victoria

Victoria@sovereignsymbol.com via leafe.com" and one from "The Edge Men Want

support@laverdaddemonagas.com via leafe.com"

Let me know if I you need more info, I can forward them to you off-list.

On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 10:52 AM Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com> wrote:

> NOTE: I had tried posting this yesterday, but the message never got

> posted. I checked the logs, and it showed that it was received, passed spam

> filtering, and then... nothing. What followed was several hours of

> debugging with the help of Claude Opus 4.8. I finally tracked down the root

> cause, but had no idea why it started failing now: I hadn't changed

> anything since the list upgrade back in January. While I was messing around

> I decided to also fix the broken footers, so those should be working.

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> I thought I'd share a little bit of what goes on to host this list (and

> the Dabo lists).

> I use rspamd (https://www.rspamd.com/) as my spam filter. I have the list

> software configured to run everything through it before it begins

> processing any email; those that are flagged as spam are written to a file

> and otherwise ignored.

> Once a day I have a script running on a cron job that analyzes that file,

> and sends me a single email summary of the previous day's suspected spam

> for review. It's rare to find legitimate mail that was incorrectly marked

> as spam, but it does happen.

> The script extracts the subjects, senders, and recipients, and sorts them

> by count, and then alphabetically. It also contains a link I can click to

> delete the file if there's nothing good in it.

> This morning's summary was larger than usual. Typically there are a couple

> hundred held spam messages a day, but yesterday the total was 933! That's a

> lot of spam!

> I was going to include the email summary in this post, but with all those

> spammy subjects, it wouldn't make it through any of your spam filters, so I

> posted it on my website, with some internal details redacted.

> -- Ed Leafe