Re: spam filter

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:40:39PM -0500, Michael Shalayeff wrote: the main problem is that all of the MX hosts for the domain(s) covered by the mail server running spamd have to filter the same list of ip addresses. otherwise they just remail it to the lower priority MX when it fails w/ the

Re: spam filter

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Daniel Hartmeier: Actually, checking some statistics, the spews list catches a significant percentage of spam coming directly from open relays. The spam that still gets through is coming mostly from mailing list servers. These are not open

spam filter

2003-01-06 Thread Bryan Irvine
I read recently about the new pf-based spam filter included in openbsd(-current?). There has been talk about rebuilding our mailserver, so I'm wondering if this is a good way to go. Anyone using this yet? -- Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spam filter

2003-01-06 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:42:09PM -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote: Anyone using this yet? It doesn't catch a very large percentage of spam here, as spammers use much more relays than are listed in any database I could find. Spews.org lists about 15000. So you'll still need spamassassin/bmf to detect

Re: spam filter

2003-01-06 Thread Bryan Irvine
Interesting, I think I will give might try to convince the powers at large to move to openbsd, we are currently on caldera linux, and I must say, I hate it. :-/ Thanks Daniel. On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:35, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: Actually, checking some statistics, the spews list catches a