----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [scottish] Spam and secondary MXs
> At 16:00 06/03/02 +0000, Kenny Duffus wrote: > >Hi > > > >I was wondering whether anyone else has noticed receiving almost all of > their spam via > >their secondary mx host? When almost all genuine mail comes through our > primary mx host. > >-- > > I get a mixture - since I'm on a dialup connection I didn't find this > particularly odd (when not dialled up, mail goes to the fallback MX). > > If you're trying to reduce spam, take a look at spam assassin > (http://www.spamassassin.org) which is a perl; based expert system for > identifying spam - works a treat, although it can give some false positives > with mailing lists. spamassassin absolutely rocks - it nails 99.9% (an exaggeration, but you get the message) of all the spam i usually get - it will auto whitelist (i.e. never mark as spam) messages which you get regularly marked spam free, and you can manually black or white list addresses to permit spamlike mailing list messages (microsoft and action.com newsletters spring immediately to mind). if you're running debian woody, just apt-get install spamassassin and read the man page - I applied it to my gf's mail account after I was satisifed it was working on mine and she was very pleased to see the amount of spam she has to deal with manually cut down to size. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
