From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 12:59:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694BB16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:59:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963C243D55 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:59:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 2.2g3) with ESMTP id 1894 for multiple; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:59:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200503092354.11842.m.hauber@mchsi.com> References: <200503100053.58872.l0kit0@exactas.org> <200503092354.11842.m.hauber@mchsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8221d062ebbe5fa986e1becd8a80f606@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:59:57 -0500 To: m.hauber@mchsi.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:59:53 -0000 On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Mike Hauber wrote: > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 10:53 pm, Luciano Musacchio wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? >> :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one >> here give me a hint on this? >> >> thanks > > heh... I'm working on that right now, actually... :) > > There are so many options and combinations out there, it wouldn't > be worth it to list them. > > From my experience (somewhat limited)... If you're running > sendmail on FreeBSD, then SpamAssassin and clamav running thorugh > MIMEDefang is probably the best way to go (MIMEDegang is pretty > cool and it simplifies the whole process... and it supports a > lot of other stuff too) At the moment we're running FreeBSD 4.x with postfix, clamav, and spamassassin via amavisd-new; after processing the message is injected into another postfix queue where it's forwarded to an internal mail server. Is there an easy way to plug mimedefang into that kind of setup? Is there a nice howto on the subject?