Based on Stuart's recommendation, I put postgrey on my server. My spam dropped from about 100 per day to 2-3 per day. I haven't heard of any case of someone sending me an email that didn't arrive, either. I don't have any additional spam filtering, except for marking things as junk in Thunderbird.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ryan Simpkins > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SPAM CITY - Suggestions? > > Have you ever been curious what happens when you alias root on the PLUG > server > to your own e-mail address (this is just one e-mail account)? > > http://ryansimpkins.com/spamgraph.png > > Up until now I've been pretty satisfied with dspam. However, now I'm > strongly > considering slamming my door shut and going with TMDA: > > http://tmda.net/ > > Virus filtering, three RBLs, etc. are already in play. The numbers in that > graph are after getting through the first line of defenses. I didn't mind > dspam when there were a few hundred messages in the quarantine a week. But > now > there is about that many every day. The dspam filter is about 99% acurate. > > Which scenario do you think is better: > 1) A VIP sends an e-mail. You don't get it because it lands in your SPAM > filter. You don't catch it due to the volume of SPAM you get. It is a rare > event, but you could miss out on a time sensitive communication. > > 2) A VIP sends an e-mail. Your system sends an automated reply with a > simple > step a VIP has to follow to ensure they get past the filter. The risk is > that > the VIP won't bother reading or following the instructions sent. The > benefit, > if everything is followed, you don't miss any important communication. You > could still have e-mails land in a quarantine box to try and catch the > ones > that got away. > > For the TMDA solution I could go through all of my mail folders and > generate a > massive whitelist of everyone who has e-mailed me. There are about 32,000 > e-mail messages in the archive to feed it. Then, the script could run in a > cronjob and frequently rescan the list to be sure it stays up to day. That > would certainly help those who already have a connection, but what about > new > contacts? > > TMDA does a lot of other cool things too. In particular, tagged addresses > could be very useful: > > http://wiki.tmda.net/ClientConfiguration > > -Ryan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
