On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:16:17 +0000 Carlo Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all. > Hello, > I'm using dspam and I'm very happy with it, except for this new wave of > mp3 / gif viagra spam. > > The mp3 spam emails had only the attachment, no subject and no body text. > The gif spam emails that I'm seeing now have random pieces of english > text (from books?) on the subject and body, and the attachment. > > dspam is proving very ineffective stopping these spams. Especially the > gif ones. > > How are you all fighting and stopping these spams? > one way would be to use ClamAV to stop them. Do you use ClamAV? > I'm thinking of adding a layer before dspam with spamassassin/pyzor, but > I tried spampd yesterday and was not satisfied with it. Some emails took > over 10 seconds to get scanned, > That is normal with SpamAssassin. > even removing the dnsbl tests from > spamhaus, are other emails took about 30 minutes or more to get > delivered. > The DNSBL tests are probably not the reason to have a 30 minutes delay. > I run busy ISP mail servers so I had to remove spampd and I'm > using only dspam. > I run a cluster of mail servers in a ISP setup as well. My setup uses more then just DSPAM. But I try to avoid anything that can not be clustered and I try to avoid everything that uses just to much cpu/memory without being effective. Might I ask you what MTA you are using? Do you really just run DSPAM without any other additional tools? > Thanks for your time. > > Carlo Rodrigues > -- Kind Regards from Switzerland, Stevan Bajić ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dspam-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
