Gary and Sam,
Thanks for the useful info! I have SpamDyke running now with the simple
conf and will start looking at the options. I have some white & black
lists to import to . .
BTW, it appears top-posting is OK here?
Regards,
Phil.
On 2015-06-20 05:52, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote:
I'm not familiar with GreyLite at all, but "connection-time" means
spamdyke does its work while the message is still coming into your
mail server -- while the connection with the sending server is active.
This is as opposed to filtering messages in the mail queue, after the
remote server is no longer connected (and believes the message has
been delivered). The advantage of a connection-time filter is the
remote server sees the rejection and the spam is never stored on your
server at all. Rejecting messages after they've been queued requires
either sending a bounce message or delivering it to a user's "Junk"
folder.
This distinction comes up a lot around qmail regarding recipient
validation. By itself, qmail does not validate recipients when
messages are accepted. Any username at a valid domain is accepted,
then bounced later if the address turns out to be invalid. This leads
to the problem of "backscatter spam" -- spammers deliberately send
messages to invalid addresses and set the "from" address to their
intended target. A qmail server will bounce the message (complete with
spam or virus) to the victim. For qmail to validate recipients at
connection time requires a patch or a filter like spamdyke.
-- Sam Clippinger
On Jun 19, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
<spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote:
People,
I have been using GreyLite for many years but it hasn't been
supported for quite a while - I think it is time to update to
SpamDyke . . but I have some questions - first one:
I looked at the SpamDyke web site and it is still not clear to me -
it says '"connection-time" means spamdyke evaluates and rejects spam
while the remote server is still delivering it' - does this mean it
does it at the TCP / mail envelope level? ie so it would be the same
as GreyLite? GL blocks and forces possibly bad mails to be resent
some time later which many spammers don't attempt . .
Thanks,
Phil.
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