Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC said: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > >> I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. >> Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and >> clamav), and saw an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns >> out there's a port for it already in FreeBSD. > > I don't run postifx and the thing I am about to mention I have not > tried yet, but you may want to explore modifying your greylisting to > be based on spamassassin results. > > I use exim as the mta and there is a thing called sa-exim that lets > you run spamassassin at SMTP time so that you can reject mail if you > want before you actually are finished receiving it. The author of sa- > exim has modified it to do greylisting based on spamassassing scores > generated at smtp time, so that you only greylist mail that is > thought to be spam and do not inconvenience your regular users. > > Can you do spamassassin at smtp time with postfix?
Yes you can. I recommend this. The postfix docs explain how to do it: http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html I've used this technique and find it very helpful, as it makes bounce messages (caused by spam and viruses) nonexistent. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"