From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 20:12:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781DC16A418 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACA513C458 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so3251102pyb.10 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:12:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mj5ddsmklHj7PBBFbumnll0oCmxcgOoFgdYt+3B/Rac=; b=M8lGFS5DiEWfEMsx4CcC4fg5EAgYzBi73jojfJtWQ7/wk4ZvbXgJvQr1JG1RwRqssCF1fa2ffuBDO+3Ub060euU7drbrF9D9P3ermfeAVVVbghc8+wA7YD0l4c2kZBo2ArK48jHkQu+9JO2coWv7jNndBt9QbwNwisI0qEjjQGI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PVqQ8p5HpOEpGgv3RkDK2h68GzHnhqCw//MG3ZbBC3PXRzS42J4qouWV+7KM/vh2PLPHngy73xSpFlcWL+TrFfO88etPSW78lxWvoN2ZGcmtksdMZoj3NnX4JEJgMVV2F1RcXJVzLRO7qGQNwj0wnT7YaH00W8jI7qpxFJccti0= Received: by 10.35.63.2 with SMTP id q2mr7279312pyk.49.1200341538518; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:12:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.17.10? ( [67.190.229.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n63sm16425339pyh.44.2008.01.14.12.12.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:12:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <478BC21F.5040307@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:12:15 -0600 From: Jack Barnett User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Almberg References: <87A9631B-EAC5-41B8-B4C2-001C3ADBA486@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <87A9631B-EAC5-41B8-B4C2-001C3ADBA486@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No spam??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jackbarnett@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:12:19 -0000 John Almberg wrote: > Last week I set up a brand new mail server with a combination of > pf/spamassassin/maildrop for spam filtering... Everything seems to > work great. All real mail seems to be getting through. I monitored the > spamd and maildrop logs during the first few days to make sure my very > conservative spam settings (spamd marks email that scored higher than > 5 as spam, and maildrop drops spam that scores higher than 12) to make > sure that real mail isn't getting dropped. > > At the beginning of the week, I was getting a few spam a day in my > spam folder. What has me spooked is that this whole weekend I got > exactly one spam in my spam folder (a false positive, in fact). This > is down from around 500 that I normally get per day (which is why I > was keen to get an up-to-date mailserver!) > > I know this is an odd thing to worry about, but is this normal? Since > the spam doesn't even seem to be reaching spamd, I'm guessing that the > real hero is pf, which must be blocking 99.99% of spam at the packet > level. > > Is this normal? > > TIA: John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" How did you setup pf? You just have a 'generic' blacklist?