[CentOS] Recommended software for mail greylist?

John Hinton webmaster at ew3d.com
Fri Feb 29 15:28:35 UTC 2008


Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Zhang Huangbin wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I want to use grey list in mail server, currently, i use postgrey to
>> implement it.
>>
>> Any other recommended software?
>
> perhaps you should consider asking on a MTA specific list ?
>
Karanbir,

I belong to several lists regarding mail. That world is pretty darned 
complex and many times spread first between windows and 'nix servers and 
then divides out into the various 'nix flavors and the few winders options.

It would REALLY be sweet if there was a list specific to CentOS and 
email, where all things remotely related could be discussed. Basic 
system discussion through to anti-spam techniques.

As a side, I could see blossoming a Wiki area specific to email which 
might eventually fill out to an extremely robust set of how to's for 
installations of what amounts to being some of the very hardest things 
that I've accomplished with CentOS. Yes SpamAssassin is a powerful tool, 
but for instance the default setup that comes out of the box is fairly 
weak. A trip to the SpamAssassin site will just leave you mostly 
confused and reading for hours only to find out that what you think is 
good might not be applicable to your system.

Googling doesn't help much either. It's just about impossible to get a 
decent return on a search as there is just too much information and the 
relevance goes down to all but useless.

I think a fair number of the members of this list and the users of 
CentOS are using it in a server environment and require email. And 
basically, if you require email that is not exclusively internal to a 
network, spam is a huge battle which requires constant time... and I 
mean hours and hours and hours and hours of time. I just spent about 4 
days on this again this past week.

Do you or anyone else have a good idea for how something like this might 
be accomplished? If CentOS can't handle what might be a pretty good 
additional mail volume or storage/traffic volume, would anyone else 
perhaps step up the the plate? If so, would CentOS readily advertise 
this list on the site so that it would gain enough users to be a 
valuable service?

I would offer to do it here, but I fear I don't have enough bandwidth as 
I think a list like this would be a huge success, if people knew it existed.

Best Regards,
John Hinton



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