On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 06:51:47PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > sigh, another nixspam mention which was hiding because spamd.conf.5 is > kept in src/share/man/man5 rather than src/libexec/spamd, so it missed > my removal. > > nixspam is shut down, you cannot use it. > > unless you have your own curated list of bad IPs, spamd-setup is not > really useful.
Yes, they shut down a little while back. A partial replacement could be the list I produce from a greytrapping setup (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml and links therein). That one is free to use and refreshes 10 minutes past every hour. A suggested spamd.conf stanza (lifted from one of the boxes in my care): bsdly:\ :black:\ :msg="Your address %A is in the bsdly list\n\ See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml for details":\ :method=https:\ :file=nxdomain.no/~peter/bsdly.net.traplist (if you want the full story or are just desperate to spend some time reading about spamd and related matters, https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html alternatively https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html if GOOG's trackers are fine with you) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
