At 09:25 AM 7.12.2004 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: >On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 01:16, Keith C. Ivey wrote: >> Scot L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And I will be adding legit sites to a whitelist as they are identified. >This will eliminate the delay for regular daily communications from >those sources. > >The problem we had with using just spamassassin was that it still took >someones time to review those messages marked as spam to make sure there >were no false positives. And with such a large amount of spam it was >becoming difficult to sort through that many messages. So far it >appears that legit email still gets through, with a slight delay, but >the vast bulk of spam is turned away. > >One side benefit is that in the last month I have found our server on >occasion running with very high load averages handling spam bursts. >Can't say yet if that problem is solved but I suspect I won't find a 20 >load average on this box for some time to come. > >I am going to spend a little time this week to try and get better stats >on the number of messages delayed vs. delivered. > >At this point for my use this method is going to save me time and system >resources that can be put to better more productive use than sorting >through thousands of spam messages. As such I feel it is very >valuable. YMMV. > >-- >Scot L. Harris >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking
Scot, I agree with your same assessment of using greylisting as an advance guard against spam. By itself, it is not adequate, but with SpamAssassin (and spamass-milter) waiting at the next level, these programs make an excellent team. GL is still rather new and I expect it only to get better with time. So, SA remains an important barrier and I look forward to the ver-3.0 production release. Also, agree with an earlier post that using a long delay time for GL is not useful, whereas just a few minutes does the job just as well or better. Moreover, I have also added the Sendmail plugin milter-regex which is also catching quite a bit of the viruses at the front door, thus avoiding the need to use up those heavier resources later with a scanner. I've seen my virus snags drop sharply using regex as with GL for the spam. Then Procmail filters await beyond spamassassin.....!!! Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator Sage American http://www.sage-american.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
