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.
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 ... heck, I still have to patch sasl for it to auth against crypted passwords ... maybe I should stop before I start ranting ;)