I see in many of the postings in this list people mentioning greylisting, how is it implemented in qtoaster? has anyone ever tried delaying smtp connections as a method of stoping spams?
regards, Crispin. > Following is a little bit from my local LUG (PhoenixLinuxUsersGroup). > I typically have high regard for Craig White's opinions and level of > expertise as a System Administrator. > > I think that the toaster runs pretty well, but am always looking for > improvements (and I think there's a bit, while not a lot of room). > > I don't know a thing about MailScanner, but I'm guessing that it's a > counterpart to simscan, with some chkuser functionality thrown in. If > that's > the case, I'd prefer the toaster, as chkuser runs straight off the SMTP > level, rejecting more email at the source. > > I haven't installed RDJ yet, but seeing as it's part of QTP, I intend to > very soon. > > Does anyone have any knowledge/experience with SARE? Is it worth looking > at? > > I'm still on the fence with greylisting. I've talked with a few folks > about > it, and am inclined to think that it is more appropriately implemented in > a > firewall, if at all. > > I'm interested to know what some of our more seasoned email admins think > about this. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Spamassassin tricks > Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:43:01 -0700 > From: Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Main PLUG discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:26 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 16:23 -0700, Nathan England wrote: >> >> Anyone have any good spamassassin tricks while I'm on the topic? >> >> I have mine set to change the header of anything over a 4.0 but it is >> very >> >> rare that anything is given over a 4.0. Even spam will only get a few >> points >> >> over a 4.0 >> >> >> >> What are people doing to get a 20.0 as some tutorials say to set it >> at? >> > --- >> > use MailScanner - let it do the heavy lifting...you get a LOT of >> extras >> > too. >> > (or mime-defang though I like MailScanner). These are wrappers around >> > anti-virus/spamassassin/ and do all sorts of phishing/etc. >> > >> > http://www.mailscanner.info/ >> > >> > Craig >> >> No doubt good advice, Craig. However, you failed to answer the question. >> (couldn't resist) ;) > ---- > OK - SARE and RDJ rules du jour are the popular ones. > > to be honest, after greylisting & RBL blocks, spamassassin 3.1.5 seems > to get just about everything that gets past the first 2 (which isn't > much). I haven't implemented either SARE or RDJ but I keep my eye on > them just in case... > > Craig > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
