Hello all and sorry for the delay, I found this yesterday while searching for an alternative. Anyone come across it before?
http://www.magicvillage.de/~Fritz_Borgstedt/assp/0003D91C-8000001C/ All the best, A. On 12/07/12 23:04, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:05:40AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Depends on how complicated you want it to be I guess, but no one >> solution is foolproof. >> >> Here are last week's stats (for only 4 mail users now): >> ======================================================================= >> postal.lucasit.com delayed (or stopped) 429 connection attempt(s) via >> greylisting, 298 attempt(s) by RBL (zen.spamhaus.org), and 2087 >> attempt(s) by RBL (b.barracudacentral.org). >> >> An additional 903 message(s) were rejected due misconfigured or locally >> blaclisted mail servers. SpamAssassin identified a total of 99 spam >> message(s). >> >> A total of 603 message(s) were delivered, post-gauntlet, having >> potentially stoped a total of 3114 spam message(s) from ever being >> processed by SpamAssassin. >> ======================================================================= >> >> As you see, SA is still doing some work, but it is overshadowed by the >> RBLs. It is far more efficient to block at the door and send a 5xx error >> immediately, but some people either cannot (as in law) or don't like to >> block anything. If that is the case, something more complex may be >> called for. >> > Thanks - I keep forgetting to specify enough context! This is on > my home server, which has a mailserver to forward status reports > (run by fcron) from itself and my desktop boxes to me. All other > incoming mail is via fetchmail. My outgoing mail has been going via > my ISP's mailserver for some years, ever since lists started to > decide they didn't want to talk to a random broadband home user's > mailserver. > > In the end, I just copied the rules and key from the host. It's > now booted and running - I'd not realised how much of my server-only > build needs to change, mostly related to the bootscript changes > since 6.8. Getting there, managed to get some updated rules. > > Meanwhile, it looks as if sa 3.4.0 is about to be released - I hope > to rebuild my server if we have a BLFS package freeze for 7.2, so > I'll give it a try then. Perhaps in a month's time I'll have > forgotten some of the aggravation involved in getting the rulesets > ;) > > ĸen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
