Paul McNett wrote: > MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > >> OMG...1200 junk emails since 9/26! Holy cow! I'm sure others here have >> worse statistics than that! >> > > I used to have statistics worse than that, but so far I only have 50 > junk mails in my tbird junk filter today. > > A few months back, I adapted a multi-level anti-spam approach on my > mailserver, using: > > + Postfix features to reject or drop messages without things like > fully-qualified hostnames, properly formatted headers, etc. > > + Clam A/V > > + Postgrey greylist filtering (if my server hasn't seen a mail from and > to a given address, reject the message temporarily - we'll accept the > second try). > > + SPF filtering > > Since then the junk has dropped significantly and I'm more confident > that my users aren't sending out bad stuff too. > > > That sounds like a good strategy, Paul. A client of mine uses SpamArrest (?) and he said it's cut down his crap considerably too. It's a "whitelist" kind of program that sends a "confirm you are who you say you are" email to the sender.
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