10 Jan
2006
10 Jan
'06
11:11 p.m.
RBLs have the nasty habit of also filtering out legitimate email due to
overzealous RBL maintainers who blacklist entire domains over dubious
complaints. I'd be leary of giving any RBL too much power.
Ryan Sinn wrote:
Since we're all giving our thoughts here -- How
about using an RBL
(Real-time Blacklist) via rblsmtpd on the smtp server in combination
with SpamAssassin? Personally I went from getting 300-500 SPAM a day
(without any spam protection) to next to nothing (5-10) -- and some
days nothing.
It's been working fairly well except for the spam sent through mba.
Ryan
Russell Cattelan wrote:
Gary D Hipple wrote:
Seems odd, but I don't get any of the SPAM
others complain about.
Must be the
ISP. My VISI.com account is protected by the Postini spam service.
Yup probably.
VISI has an at least one dedicated engineer keeping up with there
postini filtering.
Unfortunatly I probably can't affort the postini service for
thebarn.com.
I try to keep SpamAssassin uptodate as possible and in the past SA
usally
does a good job... but ya it's not keeping up as much as it should.
But just for reference SA has found this many spam's since 9am this
morning.
slurp[9:42pm]-=>grep spam /var/log/maillog | grep identified | wc -l
591
slurp[9:44pm]-=>grep spam /var/log/maillog | grep process |wc -l
710
- Hipple
Quoting Russell Cattelan <cattelan(a)xfs.org>:
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 19:13 -0600, Mike Moranz
wrote:
> Can someone do something about the spam? I just have to "stand
> up", "be
> erect", "be solid", and do it longer than ever before, to get this
> stopped.
> (Unless it lasts more than 4 hours, then I'll see a doctor)
> Mike
>
Heh the million dollar complaint about email these days.
Or should I say billion dollar... I forget what the current
corporate estimates are for the amount of money spent trying
to deal cut down on spam.
Unfortunately it appears that the spaammer have as much
access to the spam filtering methods as the rest of us
and they are doing a good job of keeping ahead of the
filter rules.
There is still the option of closing the list to subscribers
only but that always gets voted down and being to annoying.