Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:53 -0400, Alain Terriault wrote:
Hi,
What is todays most effective combination to filter spam ?
On my old Redhat 3 system I used Sendmail and Spamassasin .. it was good, but with the current setup we are getting way to much spam.
Looking around I found new players, well some I did not know then and they are very interesting..
MailScanner .. http://www.mailscanner.info/ Sagator .. http://www.salstar.sk/sagator/ Smf .. http://smfs.sourceforge.net/index.html dspam .. http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/index.shtml
I am tempted to go with smfs because it is familiar .. but, mailscanner seems popular
I use MailScanner but it still uses spamassassin.
I use postfix and greylisting and block e-mails that coming from hosts that don't resolve by reverse dns or for that matter don't have valid hostnames. I also use some rbl's.
Those things alone and greylisting knock down most of it so spamassassin has a much lighter load and MailScanner is awesome.
Same here - I use a 3 phase approach to pre-filtering spam. I use postfix restrictions (requiring a FQDN helo hostname blocks ~30% on my server), DNSBL's (zen.spamhaus.org, dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net, psbl.surriel.com, bl.spamcop.net) and greylisting which in combination blocks >99% of all spam _before_ it enters the server and needs any costly post-filtering by SpamAssassin/ClamAV etc. It's an extremely effective solution for me (YMMV).
Ned