[CentOS] spam control

Thu Oct 26 16:21:46 UTC 2006
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org>

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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:01:30PM -0400, John Hinton wrote:
> I'm using milter-ahead and Spamhaus on my backup mailserver. 
> Milter-ahead looks to the primary mailserver to see if the user exist 
> before excepting mail for the domain.. unless the primary mailserver is 
> unreachable, at which point it accepts anything. (rare ocassions). 
> Milter-ahead makes use of the mailtable and relay domains to know if it 
> should be dealing with email for our domains.
> 
> So many spammers are finding the backup mailservers and sending directly 
> to those, I found this absolutely a must do as backscatter was getting 
> terrible.

I keep all my e-mail users on MySQL, and use database replication for
that. Works like a charm, with very low traffic between the servers.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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