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[Mark Street]

I think I did understand.  I like Eric's idea also.  Do what works best for 
you.  I think this can be done easily with mailman.

Your marketing department wants a personalized broadcast (non-spam) list only, 
which masks the sender to whatever you name your list, members are not 
allowed to post to the list (moderated) so there would not be much need for 
moderation.  Marketing persons could be placed in the non-moderated role.  
You could hack the Reply To: header if need be so if they do reply it would 
go to a real address and not to the list.

The list admins who send messages to the list would have his messages scanned 
for spam and viruses by the amavisd-new scanning framework and either 
quarantined as SPAM prior to delivery to mailman or have mailman filter the 
post on Subject = SPAM or the SA score in the header and either discard it or 
hold it.  If all goes well mailman receives the message and tags on the 
personalized "Dear $NAME, blah blah blah" message header.  Done

The mail is then broadcast to all members of the list.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:52:59PM -0700, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> As far as the spam thing, I'm not sure you quite understand what I'm
> going for.  I'm trying to make sure that the messages that are actually
> sent to the customer don't look like spam (so content filtering systems
> like SA don't flag them as spam).

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 16:37, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> If you're running a recent version of mailman, you can do this:
>
> In mm_cfg.py (/etc/mailman/, /var/mailman/, /var/lib/mailman,
> /usr/lib/mailman; wherever it lives) put some lines like these:
>
> GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin')
> SPAMASSASSIN_DISCARD_SCORE = 500
> SPAMASSASSIN_HOLD_SCORE = 1
> SPAMASSASSIN_MEMBER_BONUS = 0
>
> That way, mailman won't discard anything outright unless it's seriously
> major spamitude (I've never seen a score of 500; ever), but will hold on to
> anything with an even moderate spam score and won't give any special
> spam-preferences to members of the list.  (hold onto means "hold for
> moderation so that an admin has to approve it").
>
> I would still set up the list so that all messages require moderation, but
> this way anything with a spam score will show up in mailman as having a
> spam score.

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