On 1/11/2012 11:15 PM, Al Zick wrote: > Hi, > > For a while we ran Qmail. Qmail would accept all emails regardless, > creating a very serious backscatter problem. Of course, switching to > Postfix with it configured to only accept emails for our recipients > fixed this problem. Still we seem to be losing the war with spam. I > whitelisted any server that has a .forward set to mine. Any email from a > server that is whitelisted gets delivered. This is unacceptable, so I > started using procmail with some rules so that email from servers that > are whitelisted just get delivered without any filtering. Could someone > recommend some low resource way of rejecting more spam. I am considering > policyd.
http://www.postfix.org/docs.html See section "UCE/Virus" Apparently you missed the discussion Yesterday, Wednesday 12 Jan, of an anti spam tool called fqrdns.pcre. It will stop most bot spam. Postscreen will as well, requires Postfix 2.8+. > I recently setup dovcot to replace uw-imap. It seems to work fine when I > am telneting from localhost, but even though it lets me log in from > another system, it will not allow me to download the mail. I can't > figure out why, does anyone have any ideas? You need to inquire on the Dovecot mailing list, this is the Postfix list. -- Stan
