> Many people don't use content filters in their anti-spam arsenals. For > these > folks (including myself) whitelisting is a valuable tool, and if done > correctly > won't introduce any additional exposure to spam via spoofed sender > addresses. > I know that.
> If you're gasping and wondering how someone can fight spam without a > content > filter such as SA, I'd say you haven't been in the game long enough, > You terribly underestimate me. I know well how to fight Spam without a content filter. Heck. I could even turn of my content filter and most users would not see a difference. If I only look at the legitimate user mailboxes (aka: no honey pots) then my current Spam inbound is less then 1%. Statistically looked at it those <1% are nothing. > or > haven't > faced 4th and goal enough times. ;) > I don't understand that sentence/expression. > I'll take some heat for this comment, but for the most part it's true. SA > is a > "lazy man's" A/S tool. > I am absolutely with you in that regard. > Most people who use it expect it to just "work > automatically". Some know that is must be well trained and tweaked to > work very > well. Others have thrown it away and gone to better methods, but they > take > considerably more OP time to setup and keep working well. > > I fall into another category. > Me too. > I've never used SA and started out from day > one > using the "other methods", including heavy use of Postfix's inbuilt > anti-UCE > features. And yes, I've burned a lot of time maintaining it. But it > works very > very well. > I only burned at the beginning a lot of time. But now it's like a perpetuum mobile. It just works. A bunch of the rings I build around the users mail box require some maintenance but mostly they are minimal (aka: ensuring that the used RBL/RHBL/DNSWL/etc are all still alive, that none of the solutions just got wild and does crazy/unexpected things, that an update of Postfix does not break anything that I have implemented, etc...) > -- > Stan > Steve -- Preisknaller: GMX DSL Flatrate für nur 16,99 Euro/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02
