From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 25 07:30:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B68F16A400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from skapet.datadok.no (skapet.datadok.no [194.54.107.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCCC13C448 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from thingy.bsdly.net ([10.168.103.11] helo=thingy.datadok.no.bsdly.net ident=peter) by skapet.datadok.no with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H9yjB-00024U-QD for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:08:58 +0100 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <8a20e5000701240903q35b89e14k1ab977df62411784@mail.gmail.com> From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:08:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8a20e5000701240903q35b89e14k1ab977df62411784@mail.gmail.com> (Gustavo Feij's message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:03:06 -0200") Message-ID: <87ps93poqg.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Loosing spam fight X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:30:03 -0000 For purposes of making the subject less true, setting up greylisting with an optional tarpit for known baddies can be very effective. See Dan Langille's recent Onlamp article[1] or for that matter my tutorial[2] for how this is done using PF and spamd - this way it doesn't matter much which MTA(s) you use. [1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html [2] http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/, with the specifics of spamd and greylisting starting at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html -- 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" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.