how to deal with spam for good?

[Mike Hauber]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 10:53 pm, Luciano Musacchio wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam?
> :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one
> here give me a hint on this?
>
> thanks

heh...  I'm working on that right now, actually...  :)

There are so many options and combinations out there, it wouldn't 
be worth it to list them.

From my experience (somewhat limited)...  If you're running 
sendmail on FreeBSD, then SpamAssassin and clamav running thorugh 
MIMEDefang is probably the best way to go (MIMEDegang is pretty 
cool and it simplifies the whole process...  and it supports a 
lot of other stuff too)

With sendmail on OpenBSD, it's probably SpamAssassin and clamav 
running through smtp-vilter (but clamav and smtp-vilter are still 
very much a work in progress on obsd, and will cause hair to fall 
out until at least the next release...  parsed me off.  :( )

Really though, there are lots of possibilities...  I would start 
with a google with something like:

bsd +u're_MTA-of-choise_goes_here +spam +filter +scan

HTH

Mike