Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:18:50 +0100 From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam prevention Message-ID: <87y7ptz9k5.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <055401c71411$9654fc20$6400a8c0@msdi.local> (Ian Lord's message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:53:36 -0500") References: <055401c71411$9654fc20$6400a8c0@msdi.local>
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"Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> writes: > To fight spam, is spamassassin the best choice or should I look into > something else ? Spamassassin works. If you have Microsoft machines in your setup, you probably want clamav (antivirus) or similar as well. And finally, do look into running some sort of greylisting (possibly supplemented with a tarpit for known bad senders). The greylisting/tarpitting part is really easy to do with PF, see eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html (part of my packet filtering for fun and profit tutorial) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" 20:11:56 delilah spamd[26905]: 146.151.48.74: disconnected after 36099 seconds
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