Mark, >Is it possible that the older server was avoiding spam because it was >deferring incoming mails and the spammers do not retry deliveries?
Yes, that's the whole point of greylisting - many spammers never retry. From my logs, I have: 'Rejected', 25075 (they connected, were greylisted, and never came back) 'Accepted', 4894 (they connected, were greylisted, and successfully tried again) Also, some spammers specifically send to the lowest MX record, assuming that you may be using a backup server at your ISP which will accept the message, and that you may then mistakenly trust the backup server more than the rest of the Internet. This could account for the difference on its own. You should also check that any automatic rule updates you have for SpamAssassin are run on both systems. Best Wishes, Paul. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
