http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/819 <p> Today we had our first item of Trac spam, <a class="new ticket" href="http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/818" title="defect: For watch lovers. superwatches (new)">ticket:818</a>, since the open email interface was enabled almost 2 years ago on <a class="closed ticket" href="http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/494" title="maintenance: Email account for TRAC (closed: fixed)">ticket:494</a>. </p> <p> This ticket has been created to investigate and implement some anti-spam measures. </p> en-us /trac/chrome/site/TransitionNetwork-Logo-Web-Small.jpg http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/819 Trac 0.12.5 chris Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:23:50 GMT http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/819#comment:1 http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/819#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>hours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.77</em> </li> <li><strong>totalhours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.77</em> </li> </ul> <p> There is the <a class="ext-link" href="http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter"><span class="icon">​</span>SpamFilter</a> plugin but that is for spam bots editing via the web interface. </p> <p> Following <a class="ext-link" href="https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/email2trac/wiki/Email2tracConfiguration#Spam"><span class="icon">​</span>https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/email2trac/wiki/Email2tracConfiguration#Spam</a> there is the option to look for spam headers added by the mail server, however the mx.webarch.net server adds headers in this format: </p> <pre class="wiki">X-elderberry.rat.burntout.org-Spam-Score: 5.6 (+++++) </pre><p> Where as email2trac <em>"Email2trac counts the number of * characters in the spam_header line"</em>, so without either changing the email2trac regex or the manner in which the mailserver flags spam we can't use this option. </p> <p> Looking at the other <a class="ext-link" href="https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/email2trac/wiki/Email2tracConfiguration#Configuration"><span class="icon">​</span>config options</a> we can whitelist so I have changed this settings in <tt>/etc/email2trac.conf</tt>: </p> <pre class="wiki">white_list_registered_users: 1 </pre><p> We can also add additional email addresses, in the case where someone sends a email to Trac using a different email address, via <tt>white_list</tt>. </p> <p> Sorry this took a while to track down this setting, hopefully this will do the job! </p> Ticket ed Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:25:43 GMT http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/819#comment:2 http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/819#comment:2 <p> good work chris - whitelist the best thing - can't wait to get on for TNv3 </p> Ticket