On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 08:47 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote: > Daniel - > > > I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers > > of the offending email spammmers and add these respective > > IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file, > > but I am beginning to suspect that these headers could be > > easily spoofed with bogus entries, right? > > > > I am really getting tired of adding in entries into the access > > file, and writing email filters (in thunderbird) for patterns > > dumping spammers into the trash - and yet - I am still forced > > to review the trash for entries that should not have been trashed. > > Seems like a real chore and a losing proposition... > > > > What do admins of sendmail use, besides spamassasin? > > See http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/44948.html. I have been using > milter-greylist since late 2006 early 2007 and all I can say is that > spam has been reduced to less than 1% of what it used to be. > > I don't use spamassasin or any other filters for greylisting does > it very well for me. > > I am running that on a machine that receives mail for a domain > that has about 10K users and ever since it was turned on over > 3 years ago, the user base has been very happy. > > BTW, the system is running on a Fedora 13 system right now > but started life on a Fedora 7. ---- I use postfix and sqlgrey for greylisting at all of my clients/installations and it's incredible but I still use MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) which provides a wrapper for spamassassin & clamav. Even with greylisting, spamassassin will still identify spam coming through. I had no specific complaints about sendmail but I find the features much more easily accessible in postfix.
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