Re: [Hampshire] spam woes

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Author: Adrian Bridgett
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] spam woes
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 22:29:40 +0100 (+0100), Wayne Lee wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing postfix on Etch and will migrate but
> will this help?


The only time I've had an email server hammered has been running
spamassassin - and now I've got various things sat in front to avoid
scanning most emails. Why are the 300 children being used (i.e. what
are they doing?)

http://www.smop.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php/Email

This is my current setup, though I do need to tweak the anti-spam some
more (I havn't done the "learning" bit for example which is a problem
- I think I'll setup a ham and smap email addresses (only internally
accessible) which I can forward email to.

Another issue is that the greylisting daemon seems a little simplistic
- i.e. some companies send from mailrelay1 (greylisted), then
mailrelay2 (greylisted - new IP), etc etc. It would also be nice to
have a bit of a whitelist (e.g. for amazon etc).

Adrian
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