Re: [vps-mail] I Hate Spam! Time for an update.

["Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, April 12, 2005 1:33 pm, Jonathan Duncan said:
> Spam is on the rise again and once again I have to waste time trying to
> slow the flow so that my clients quit bugging me about the stuff.  I just
> delete it, why cannot they?  Because it is my job to make the servers
> automagically whisk it all away.
>
> Anyway, to the topic.  I currently only use spamcop for rbl.  I trust
> spamcop to not have false positives very often if at all.  Are there any
> other good rbl's that are trustworthy in this respect?

My favorite: sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org. I include the following line in my
sendmail mc file:

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org')dnl

I also use greylisting, which blocks about 75% of all incoming mail. (See
FreeBSD ports: /usr/ports/mail/milter-greylist )

-- 
Bennett Lanford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There are 10 kinds of people: those that understand binary and those that
don't.
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