After being away from system administration duties for a long time, I have returned. My current motivation is to bring down the SPAM in my private server.

These are the 3 lines of defense:

(1) Added the lines shown below to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

(2) *SpamAssassin*. Implemented this week. Currently running "sa-learn --spam" almost on a message by message basis. The results are very promising. I am considering migrating from procmail-based to MTA/sendmail-based. Somehow it seems that taking procmail out of the equation would result on a slightly more reliable system? Pros? Cons?

(3) My e-mail reader, Thunderbird. Every time I opened it had to spend a lot of time marking junk mail. That's when I decided to add SpamAssassin.

Due to the deluge of SPAM, my impression was that the spamhaus+spamcop combo was not working very well. However, upon closer inspection I noticed that about 7,000 messages are being rejected each week. BTW: I am guessing that spamhaus by itself is sufficient, since spamcop only rejected 3 messages that were missed by spamhaus.

Any comments, suggestions are most welcome.

TIA,

-Ramon F. Herrera


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