On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 23:39 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:12:13 -0400 Bob Hoffman bob@bobhoffman.com wrote:
On my centos 5 server I just used sendmail with spamassassin and it killed a lot. Still, 100s, sometimes more made it through. Then thunderbird would weed out more, learned as it went... Still, had an inbox with a lot of junk.
Maybe you should read some http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/ ... altough from 2005, one of the best sendmail writeups I'm aware of.
+1 I've owned/used awilliam@whitemice.org for decades. There it is - I've *never* engaged in stupid address obscurity schemes. I get at most four or five SPAM messages in my INBOX each day. A proper configuration works very well.
Now I have set up a centos 6 box using postfix. Today I decided to try to add smtpd restrictions. After a lot of reading and testing I 'seem' to be doing incredible.
I've switched to postfix back in 2001 and yes, it is amazing. Now that you're free of spam, you can dive into policyd and various content filtering schemes available. It's amazing how far email has come, yet it's even more amazing that none of the major linux distros have everything in one place, well integrated and polished and we poor sysadmins still have to stich solutions together ...
+1
Configure Postfix Configure CLAM [this doesn't even include any usable scripts] (1) Configure SPAMassassin Integrate the three Troubleshoot
You can throw a couple of RBLs or even greylist in there too.
It does seem like this should be out-of-the box on this point.
(1) I've written most of my config up in the Postfix chapter of http://bit.ly/exQSCH
heck, I still have to patch sasl for it to auth against crypted passwords ... maybe I should stop before I start ranting ;)