Spam, meh

[jbailey]

I just purged over 1000 spam that accumulated in my home email while I was away. Those were just the ones that got through. By best estimate, I have about 10 times that which actually got filtered.

My biggest culprits seem to be stuff that comes through @gnu.org and @debian.org, since those aren't subject to the RBLs that I use.

relays.ordb.org
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org

I think I need to teach my spamassassin/mailscanner to go through the received headers and try the RBLs. IIRC it's an option that I disabled for some reason.

Comments

greylisting rulez...

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Jeff,

just tried postgrey (together with postfix of course) - and that really seems to work, at least for the moment.

cheers (and thanks for being on planet debian),
wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien

Re: greylisting rulez...

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

Right, but this wouldn't actually solve the problem that I'm having. In this case the mail has already been received by the GNU or Debian servers. So I'm receiving from a source that I would generally like to receive mail from. However, they are willing to relay mails that I wouldn't otherwise want.

That means that SMTP-time RBLs and greylisting are both circumvented.

Thanks for reading!