In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matti Haack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume that it is connected with delaying (aka Greylisting) which > has/needs no test mode and simply delays unknown sender for some > minutes. This catches most virus-mails and Zobie-Systems. > > try to disable delaying and observe the rising of your spam...
Thanks Matti, That's interesting, I'll have a look at that. Is this delaying likely to affect legitimate mail at all? If delaying does get rid of quite a bit of spam, I would think it might be better to disable delaying while trying to build up a substantial corpus of spam for the bayesian analysis. Cheers Tony > Matti > > > Hi, I'm a new ASSP user, having installed it last week on the dedicated > > Linux server I use for small-scale hosting. > > > I am running 1.2.6(50) with Test Mode set for everything. I also deleted > > the secondary MX from the relevant zones, since it was a commercial service > > not under my control. So now the domains only have the one MX record > > pointing to the ASSP-protected server. > > > I have found that despite having Test Mode set for everything, the > > amount of Spam I receive has drastically reduced. I didn't expect that; > > I thought I would still get the same amount while test mode is on. > > > Could it be to do with my MX change, or does ASSP do something that > > some sources of Spam don't like? I'm not aware of losing any valid > > emails. > > > Cheers > > Tony > > > > - > Matti Haack - Hit Haack IT Service Gmbh > Poltlbauer Weg 4, D-94036 Passau > +49 851 50477-22 Fax: +49 851 50477-29 > http://www.haack-it.de > > > > Dieses Dokument ist ausschliesslich fuer den Adressaten bestimmt. > Jegliche Art von Reproduktion, Verbreitung, Vervielfaeltigung, Modifikation, > Verteilung und/oder Publikation dieser E-Mail-Nachricht ist untersagt, > soweit dies nicht ausdruecklich genehmigt wurde. Jegliche Haftung fur > Ansprueche, die aufgrund der Kommunikation per E-Mail begruendet > werden koennten, ist ausgeschlossen, soweit der Haftungsausschluss > gesetzlich zulaessig ist. > > -- Ausgehende E-Mail wurde auf Viren gescannt -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user > -- Tony Mountifield Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tony.mountifield.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
