On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:41:48 +0200 Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenac...@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > I find it hard to believe I'm the only one getting spam in Chinese > characters ;) > And "legitimate" messages as well. (Here, at least.) BLocking merely messages have more than just the Roman alphabet in them is a bit too much. > How do you guys handle this kind of spam? For the moment, I > blacklisted the 163 dot com and 126 dot com domains, without feeling > too much guilt. It's not a perfect solution though, as I'm excluding > a few posters on the LKML (for example). > rbl, sbl, access control, header checks, HELO checks, greylisting, firewall, fail2ban, et cetera do fairly nicely. and a fairly broad blocking of the worst network blocks and 2nd-level domains. Excepting their legitimate mail servers, of course cos little spam, if any, typically goes through those.