RE: mailman and spam

[Mukesh.Gupta@nokia.com]

I spent some time yesterday trying this on a windows 2000 system.
I faced some problems installing spamassassin on it :(
It was complaining about some user_prefs.template file.

Is spamassassin supported on windows ??

- Mukesh (who is discarding 29 mail daily on VRRP list since 
wednesday MANAULLY !!! :()

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:05 AM
> To: Aaron Falk
> Cc: wgchairs@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: mailman and spam
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> --On 22. august 2003 09:48 -0700 Aaron Falk <falk@isi.edu> wrote:
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> > Harald-
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> > Since many of the lists are run by the secretariat, can you 
> tell us a)
> > whether this script will be available for lists hosted at 
> ietf.org and
> > b) how we might be able to run it without shell access?
> >
> > --aaron (who's looking at 51 pending spam discards^H^H^H^H^H
> > 	"administrative requests" for the pilc list since Wed.)
> 
> there's a note in the script that says the author would like 
> to have it run 
> as a CGI, presenting an admin page with the default action 
> tweaked rather 
> than doing the action - that could be hosted at the 
> secretariat, if someone 
> coded that. Without that, it needs shell access, which the 
> secretariat has 
> traditionally been very reluctant to hand out.
> 
> If you have an Unix box with spamassassin installed, you 
> don't need any 
> special privilleges to run it against IETF lists - just set 
> the URL and 
> password as parameters, and you're golden.
> (Anyone want to host that as a service?)
> 
> It depends on a running spamassassin installation, though.
> 
>                          Harald
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