Author: Kurt Wendt
Posted: 2026-05-31 at 18:04:31
Really Ted? Was it an Attack by Sir Spamalot??? Was that like a Monty
Python character?
-K
On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 4:28 PM Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
> > = = = = = = = = = = =
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > https://leafe.com/docs/listspam.html
> >
> >
> > -- Ed Leafe
> >
> >
> >
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