[nycbug-talk] greylisting proxies?

George Georgalis george at galis.org
Sun Oct 1 14:00:34 EDT 2006


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:48:39PM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
>On Sun 2006.10.01 at 00:04 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm currently stuck with my decision to run qmail in many places. :)
>> 
>> I really want to give greylisting a try since I'm seeing an average of 
>> 80-85% of all mail is spam and the less cpu/disk/network I can spend 
>> processing this junk the better.

and greylisting purges 97% of of them, with low (0?) false positives.

>you can run spamd(8) in front of any mta; either on the same box or in
>front.

also known as pfspamd, so as not to confuse with spamassassin's spamd.

// George


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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><



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