spamassassin not lethal anymore

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Thu, January 12, 2017 3:58 pm, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> On 01/11/17 16:18, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, January 11, 2017 4:00 pm, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> Milter greylist also helps considerably
>>>
>>
>> I'm usually using sqlgrey for greylisting. In addition to that I'm using
>> amavisd (that harnesses spamassassin, clamav (and/or other anti-viruses,
>> -
>> yes, I have windows people receiving their mail on our UNIX servers),
>> and
>> variety of distributed spam signature databases. Also, in postfix
>> configuration (that we use as MTA) we add some RBLs:
>>
>>         reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
>>         reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
>>         reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,
>>
>> I hope, this helps.
>
> I had hoped I wouldn't need to do a deep dive on state-of-the-art
> spam killing, but it's 2017 and the game has gotten tougher.
>
> Thanks for these suggestions.  I'm implementing greylisting, pyzor,
> razor, and the above client_recipient_restrictions.  dcc I don't
> quite understand yet.

In our case amavid harnesses spamassassin, pyzor, razor and dcc (at least
in one case we have local copy of dcc thus diminishing our traffic to
them). I should have mention these explicitly...

Valeri

>
> I think I'll phase this stuff in, with greylisting first, and see
> what happens to the spam flow for each step.  I am a little wary
> of putting even more chunks of perl and python into the critical
> path.
>
> Thanks a lot for the help, everyone.
>
> Russell
> (I just had a sad laugh recalling that I used to set up a mail server
>   in 1995 using sendmail... and nothing else but exmh as the client)
>
>> Valeri
>>
>>
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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