[PLUG] Spam rejection

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri May 10 20:40:06 UTC 2002


On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russ Johnson wrote:

> Lucky you. :) I get anywhere from 8 to 25 spams per day. Even though I'm 
> rejecting unknowns and using rbls. Spamassassin catches it, but I'd rather 
> reject it at the door... :)

Russ,

  I was getting more spam/day before I set up postfix here and had a
lower-number MX record inserted into the ISPs dns servers. Neither procmail
recipes nor spamassassin worked well; the latter I did not get properly
running. Spam here comes in quanta: some days none, some days a bunch.

  /var/log/maillog makes interesting reading. I don't see a message saying
"reject" or "bounce", but I see connections opened and closed with no action
in between.
 
> Hmm, I just found a header_check.txt file on the net that looks to be up to 
> date. http://infinitejazz.net/will/geek/header_checks.txt

  On the postfix web site there are three or four example files that were
contributed. I combined those as the base of my files.
 
> Looks like they do very similar jobs. Probably not to bad of an idea to 
> keep both up to date.

  After reading through some of the extended list I understand the
advantages of both. I just used rsync to grab the spamlist-extended and
incorporated it with my base list. We'll see what happens now.

Thanks,

Rich





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