Paul McNett wrote:
> MB Software Solutions General Account wrote:
>
>> OMG...1200 junk emails since 9/26! Holy cow! I'm sure others here have
>> worse statistics than that!
>>
>
> I used to have statistics worse than that, but so far I only have 50
> junk mails in my tbird junk filter today.
>
> A few months back, I adapted a multi-level anti-spam approach on my
> mailserver, using:
>
> + Postfix features to reject or drop messages without things like
> fully-qualified hostnames, properly formatted headers, etc.
>
> + Clam A/V
>
> + Postgrey greylist filtering (if my server hasn't seen a mail from and
> to a given address, reject the message temporarily - we'll accept the
> second try).
>
> + SPF filtering
>
> Since then the junk has dropped significantly and I'm more confident
> that my users aren't sending out bad stuff too.
>
>
>
That sounds like a good strategy, Paul. A client of mine uses
SpamArrest (?) and he said it's cut down his crap considerably too.
It's a "whitelist" kind of program that sends a "confirm you are who you
say you are" email to the sender.
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