Hello,

> On Aug 20, 2015, at 3:14 AM, Christian Kivalo <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2015-08-20 00:44, Ben Greenfield wrote:
>>> On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:43 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 04:14:10PM -0400, Ben Greenfield wrote:
>>>>> First explain the problem, rather than the solution.
>>>> We receive a lot of spam that have very rare top level domains .site, 
>>>> .link, .website, .eu.
>>> It is wrong to black TLDs, even if initially they appear to mostly
>>> send spam.
>> It is quick and effective and my thinking was that if a legitimate
>> domain gets rejected I would add it a specific ACCEPT above the reject
>> in the custom header check. It may be a bad plan
> 
> This seems like a bad plan to me. How do you plan to get notice of a blocked, 
> but legitimate, domain when you block all of them?
> Go through your logs and check every entry? Rely on your users?

Yes, that is how I found out my .eu regex was wrong. My rejection message tells 
the sender to get in touch.


> 
>>> Instead, try to improve your content filters.
>> The spam that is getting through doesn’t  have any spam score from
>> spamassassin I guess I should insure that they aren’t circumventing
>> the evaluation in someway.
> 
> For example there is postscreen which can reduce your spam count 
> significantly and has the added benefit that its leight-weight infront of 
> your actual smtpd, thus should reduce your server load, as less mail would 
> need to be handled by spamassassin...
> see: http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html

I’m definitely using some of the features of postscreen and I’m trying to 
figure out which features if any could filter more mail. I’m keep reviewing 
that how-to to determine if there is more I can do. 


Thanks,

Ben
>>> Whatever content scoring system is built-in to the Mac-OS/X Mail.app
>>> client, for example, identifies the vast majority of my spam without
>>> blocking any TLDs.
>> I would like to be doing this on the server before it reaches the client.
>> Thank you,
>> Ben
>>> --
>>>     Viktor.

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