> -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Gabrielson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Stopping the pre-filtered amount of spam. > > > About 90% of the email I receive is spam. Spamassassin > does a great job of blocking this spam, but it is still consuming > a huge amount of bandwidth. > > My current ideas to prevent this are: > > 1) retire existing email addresses > (a very big headache) > > 2) reply to all spam with fake bounces > (most spam has fake addresses and > this just increases bandwidth usage) > > 3) switch from postfix to exim, so that I can block spam at smtp time. > (If someone has tried this, does this have any effect on the > total amount of spam?) > > > Does anyone know of any other way to potentially reduce the initial > pre-filtered amount of spam? >
Currently with Sendmail, I block 4-5 times as much spam that gets filtered with SA. Nice to know it spares my server, but the bandwidth is still taken up for all of us using the interweb ;) Also I've since changed my opinion of Sendmail. It ain't that easy :) Make sure you grab the O'Reily book on it if you use it. "Itssssss thhhhhhe great big book of everything, with everything inside. See the server around us. It's such a perfect guide!" --Chris (Yeah, I got kids.)
