Hi Kenneth,
I'm using a couple different DNS based blacklists, but I'm still getting a lot, and I mean a lot, of spam in my inbox. What are your recommendations for controlling spam?
I swear by the Bayesian filter for spam control. Out of 450 daily spams it only lets one or two through.
You have to be aware of its limitations though. For one thing I only have a small number of users using it. If I had to manage lots of users the filter might start removing emails which one person thinks is spam while another doesn't. I guess that's why you were concerned about doing it on your server.
I don't know why you say you couldn't get it to work. I'm assuming you trained it by sending it spam and ham messages. It takes a while to improve itself and you do have to religiously send it any spam that escapes. Give it at least a week before measuring its success rate.
One final word. Don't put too much reliance on DNS blacklists. One worrying trend at the moment is for spammers to hire armies of drones to manually overcome the Captcha technology used by Google and Yahoo to create legitimate accounts from which they can send auto-responder emails. No genuine blacklist is going to put Google or Yahoo on their lists!
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