On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:11:53PM -0400, Graham Van Epps wrote:
> We've been using procmail and the sendmail DNSBL feature to check
> incoming mail for spam, but we still get a *lot* of it.  I wonder what
> other people are using to fight spam coming into their networks.  Whats
> the most popular?  Are there *any* good opensrc or commercial tools to
> do this?   It seems like most of the tools out there arent very good.
> Any ideas?

I have some information about what I do at http://www.kluge.net/mailfiltering/

Basically, I use a bunch of open-relay RBLs and a few custom sendmail
rules to block obvious spam at the SMTP level.  Then during delivery,
users can run SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org -- an absolutely
terrific open source spam scanner) to determine if a message is spam or
not.  Procmail then handles what they want to do with the spam from there.

Another good tool (works with SpamAssassin too) is Razor
(http://razor.sf.net/).  It works by checking incoming messages against
a centralized database of reported spams.

There's also DCC (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, also works with
SpamAssassin, http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/).  I haven't tried
it, but it's similar to Razor but checks for "bulkiness" of a message, as
opposed to determining if a specific message was reported as spam or not.

-- 
Theo Van Dinter, [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consultant, Collective Technologies (www.collectivetech.com)
Systems Administrator, bblisa.org/kluge.net

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