Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:05:56 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.] Message-ID: <20021121200556.26ea4840.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <877kf7kmib.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> References: <20021121031809.GA77831@tao.thought.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211210844210.23313-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <20021121135803.GB11980@gothmog.gr> <20021121140056.GA30746@kierun.org> <877kf7kmib.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net>
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On 21 Nov 2002 08:47:40 -0600
Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:
Hi,
> Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea. What if someone's writing
> to
What about the other 0.001 percent? :)
> ask how to secure their FreeBSD box that's currently being used as a
> spam relay (and is on many blackhole lists)?
It's not that a bad idea, honestly, just don't use the default 5
theshold, but a higher one.
> For what it's worth, I run SpamAssassin locally, and use it to *mark*
> possible spams, but never drop them. Then I configured my client to
> filter based on the `X-Spam-Status' header into a spam folder that I
> periodically check. Once a month or so, I find a piece of mail that
> *should* have passed but was marked, so I have to adjust my rules
> and/or whitelist accordingly.--
I also have postfix hand mail to spamassassin before it's delivered to
cyrus. However, I found it even better to permban several (useless for
me) TLDs at the firewall level (*.es *.kr *.cn *.tw and several
southamerican countries) I'm aware you can't do that on a server like
FreeBSD's, but found it extremely useful on my own one. I, personally,
have never recieved a legit mail from any of those countries.
The spam problem is a touchy one, but I'm sure some meassures are taken
at the server level for the mailing lists. I once heard a SPAM attempt
hits the FreeBSD mail servers once a second.
Cheers,
--
Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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