Greetings,
I'm trying to get a mail server running with spamd. I've read
the relevant man pages, but that's not to say I completely
understand everything perfectly.
I'm actually curious about the expected behavior of spamd and
how effective it is against spam on its own (i.e., without any
additional SPAM retardants, such as SpamAssassin, etc).
Before bringing the mail servers up, I decided to run spamd for
a period of time just to see it in action and see what the ratio
of GREY and WHITE entries I do see. This has been running in
complete default mode (grey-trapping).
I opened up the gates last night and so the server has been
running (spamd only w/o any outbound SMTP traffic). So in the
past 20 or so hours spamdb reports:
$ /usr/sbin/spamdb | /usr/bin/wc -l
60
$ /usr/sbin/spamdb | /usr/bin/grep ^WHITE | /usr/bin/wc -l
55
$ /usr/sbin/spamdb | /usr/bin/grep ^GREY | /usr/bin/wc -l
5
When I look at the white listed entries by doing a reverse
look-up on them, I only recognize one host that is a legitimate
entry (slackware.com list server). As a test I sent myself an
email from my gmail account, and gmail is taking up two of
the GREY slots still.
So, what I would like to know from spamd users/developers, if
this is a typical and expected result?
Thanks in advance,
--patrick
p.s., please Cc me in your reply if at all possible.
