[Kolab-devel] TO all anti-spam enthusiasts

[Alain Spineux]

On Dec 14, 2007 3:23 PM, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
>
> Fabio Pietrosanti <lists at infosecurity.ch> writes:
>
> > Richard Bos wrote:
> >
> >     Op Friday 14 December 2007 09:06:24 schreef Fabio Pietrosanti:
> >
> >         So imho we should carefully add all the checks that could be useful and
> >         then provide to the system administrator the opportunity, knowing what
> >         he is doing, to enable or disabled the most aggressive antispam features.
> >
> >     wouldn't this be possible with the @@@if construction, like:
> >     @@@If some_variable_value = value@@@
> >     smtp_restrict_xxxx = yyy
> >     @@@else@@@
> >     smtp_restrict_xxxx = zzzz
> >     @@@endif@@@
> >
> >     Which would be driven by the kolab management webinterface?  Perhaps with an
> >     additonal (new) tab?
> >
> > That's a great idea!
> >
> > An idea could be a configurable antispam system with simple configuration like:
> > - relaxed
> > - medium
> > - aggressive

Why do you want to hide the underneath features under vague words.
Why not list them all, maybe ordered from the lighter to the hardest, and maybe
with a hint in ( relaxed, medium, aggressive ) and some more help.

> >
> > Then would be up to the sysadmin to handle how strict the antispam configuration is.
>
> This would be indeed nice and a very reasonable solution. The default
> could still be the relaxed configuration but it would be easy to get a
> tighter setup without digging too deep into the postfix configuration.
>
> We'd probably add some big fat warnings to the tighter configuration
> but I think it would be a good way to let the Kolab Server admins
> profit from the different policies people currently use with the Kolab
> server at different sites.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
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