Loosing spam fight

Peter N. M. Hansteen peter at bsdly.net
Thu Jan 25 07:30:03 UTC 2007


For purposes of making the subject less true, setting up greylisting
with an optional tarpit for known baddies can be very effective.  See
Dan Langille's recent Onlamp article[1] or for that matter my tutorial[2]
for how this is done using PF and spamd - this way it doesn't matter much
which MTA(s) you use.

[1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html
[2] http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/, with the specifics of spamd and 
    greylisting starting at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html
-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.


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