Attention Panixians: spam filtering

[redbird]

I've been running Spam Assassin on my Panix account for years. Sometime in the last week or two, the software has started rejecting as spam a lot of things it had been letting through, and that I want to receive.

For the moment, I'm dealing with this by increasing the number of "hits required" to count something as spam, and whitelisting a couple of dozen senders and domains. Some of those are in fact mailing lists, but lists I want to be on, ranging from ACLU People Power to the MBTA alert system.

I have also put "root@panix.com" into my whitelist; it feels vaguely like I shouldn't need to do that, but I assume Spam Assassin isn't customized per ISP. (I have a cron job that sends me nightly emails, and those are marked as being from root, rather than from myself.)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Thanks for the heads' up!