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.


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