[nycbug-talk] spamd

[bruno]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:54:07AM -0400, michael wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:05:29 -0400
> Ray <nycbug at cyth.net> wrote:
> 
> > I use spamd exclusively and get about ten spam a day now.  Before
> > that I got several hundred.  If I used any other filtering methods
> > I could probably remove those ten as well, but it's come to a point
> > where it just doesn't bother me anymore.  Simplicity is best.
> 
> yea, I wasn't clear.  I meant OpenBSD spamd (trap, pit, etc) as a
> replacement for all the other stuff I was doing.  The above testimony
> was what I was looking for.  
> 
> My concerns are: Is spamd alone enough? By design, spamd delays email
> from first time senders.  Is that acceptable to users in a coporate
> environment?  Obviously, I would set up a white list of known senders
> to begin with.
> 
> Does anyone run it, and the greylisting, exclusively?

No, but it helps a lot. If you have to run one thing, run spamd.
But running a combination is better..

Bruno
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