on/Mon Mar 12 18:39:23 EDT 2012 Jure Pecar wrote /========================================================== /On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:12:13 -0400 /Bob Hoffman<bob at bobhoffman.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> 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 somehttp://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 ;) =============================================================
yea, it would only accept normal passwords, but I figured since it was using tls/ssl that the whole shebang was encypted anyway so it should be fine, right?
Also, still getting spam of course, nut a smidgeon compared to before. I would say 99.9% is being tagged by spam assassin as [spam]. Still afraid of false positives so gonna watch for a while with spamassassin before I dev null them buggers.