I've been lurking on this list a while and have benefited from a lot of ideas. Thanks to everyone who participates. The list is probably the best one I subscribe to in terms high usefullness/blabber quotient.
Just some remarks and observations. I just turned on greylisting last night using the code posted by Lucas Albers in November. http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2003-November/018252.html Thanks to Lucas and Dave Skoll for that code. It was very easy to get it running. But this morning I was somewhat disappointed that there was still a lot of spam getting through I was hoping it'd stop. In particular a large amount of pharma spam. Upon looking at it it also had headers triggering the HABEAS_SWE test resulting in a negative spam score. Is anyone familiar with this compensation test and the company behind this header? I resisted the impulse to just remove the test. (Yes, I know that greylisting is not related to those headers in any manner) The greylisting is working for numerous other spams. What I've done - and I've used this as a stop gap in several cases previously is that I have a "HOTLIST" test in /etc/mimedefang/spamassassin in 22_body_hot_lately.cf that scans mails for strings I see in the URLS associated with persistent high volume spam that is somehow sneaking around the other tests. All of these that were slipping through this morning have a distinctive string. Regards, John _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
