Topic: TMDA Spam Filtering

[Jeff C]

Has anyone succesfully gotten TMDA working on SME 5.x?

http://software.libertine.org/tmda/index.html

Looks like a very interesting solution to a larger and larger problem.

It requires Python 2.2, so an upgrade would be required...

-jeff

[Greg Zartman]

Darrell May put together a really nice spam filter RPM  that I'm currently using on my SME box.  It cut spam down by a good 75-90%.    Have a look on his web site:  www.myezserver.com

Regards,
Greg Zartman

[Jeff C]

Greg,

In fact I'm using it. :>

The attraction of TMDA is that it uses a "whitelist" for accepting mail, rather than a "blacklist" which can never be fully current.

Known email addreses are entered into the "whitelist" and always accepted.

Mail sent to you from a new address is sent a polite response requesting a return confirmation and then is no longer blocked and from then on it can be accepted or blocked at will.

All spam gets the same polite message but is never read or returned and therefore no access.

The "blacklist" method makes me responsible for proactively and continually updating the always growing blacklist database.  And as we all know, size matters :>

Cheers,

-Jeff

[Darrell May]

Stephen Noble and I are taking a look at TMDA on SME.  The python upgrade has a number of dependencies to work out.  Should be able to grab everything from the RedHat 7.2 ftp site.

We'll keep you posted.

Regards,

Darrell

[Jeff C]

Great to hear!  Good luck :>

-jeff

[Joseph Armstrong]

>Greg,
>
>In fact I'm using it. :>

Are there any tricks or gotchas to look out for in terms of installation and integration with SME?

Regards

[Robin]

> Stephen Noble and I are taking a look at TMDA on SME.  The
> python upgrade has a number of dependencies to work out.
> Should be able to grab everything from the RedHat 7.2 ftp site.

How is this project going?  TMDA sounds like something I would really like on my server, and eventually I will probably look into putting it on the server myself, but if you guys already have made progress you can share then that will help.

Robin

[steve]

Was any progress made on this ?

[Gary Barnett]

Sure hope this thread does not go silent.  I am really interested in TMDA on SME.  How can I help?

Gary

[steve]

FYI

Python2 is hidden away already in 5.5 so installation is easy. I started this before my hols and havent got back into it yet. I need to test the installation. The dot files i assume would require some work in the templates as i would assume SME over writes these.

[steve]

Anyone got tdma-pending to work ?

This seems to require execting by the user being filter and as shell access is disable for user accounts i am stuck.

even

su -c /tdma/tdma-pending steve (syntax my not be right but you get the idea)

doesnt work.

Any guru help ? I has no spam but hundreds of message pending for release or deletion.