Paul G. Allen wrote:
> Mike Marion wrote:
>
>>
>> Looking at my spam graphs I cooked up when I turned on grey-listing:
>> http://www.miguelito.org/spam-stats/
>> especially if you click on the graph to see the huge (wide) one..
>> grey-listing has basically lost all it's gains over the last 6-7
>> months. Or worse yet, there're that many spammers that realized
>> resending would get around grey-listing on top of the stuff that's still
>> just blasted out once.
>>
>> Think I need to ratchet up the rules in my MX box to try to lower some
>> of that.
>>
>
> One more reason to setup my own Postfix server. My first reason was the
> recent "improved" Cox spam blocking on their mail servers. The POS will
> not allow me to report phishing scams or any other overly malicious crap
> that I receive from time to time. It tags such e-mails as spam
> (sometimes even without much of the original content) and refuses to
> allow me to send it. Cox HSI support has been less than useless the
> dozen or so times I've tried to explain the problem to them.
>
> This recent influx of bounces now shows that I need a better local
> filter. I may also want to move my domain since I've been having trouble
> getting admin support for the past several months (I don't host or admin
> my randomlogic.com server). Trouble is I'd like a dedicated server, but
> I can't afford it now I was going to use my current employer, where I h
> ad full access and control, but they are now selling the hosting portion
> of the business.
>
> I am now up to nearly 300 failed delivery messages, so that's +100 since
> my original post. Amazing how many mis/poorly configured mail servers
> there are.
I stopped bouncing many years ago for this very reason. Most all spam has
spoofed addresses and bouncing only spreads the spam to some other poor sot.
Mos admins can't seem to get the DNS and the mail server hostnames to match
either so certain tests will cause legitimate mail to fail from misconfigured
legitimate mail servers. The number of misconfigured and poorly configured
mail servers makes it easier for spammers.
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