Slightly OT: Greylisting success or failure stories?

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Feb 4 03:15:05 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:59, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:34 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > I have been using milter-greylist with Sendmail and I am *incredibly* 
> > impressed.  Between SpamAssassin, spamass-milter, DCC, Pyzor, Razor, ClamAV, 
> > clamav-milter, and milter-greylist, I literally receive no spam in my Inbox. 
> > None.
> > 
> I really dislike adding all that stuff.
> 
> With NONE of the above, using three RBLs and our internal rlbdnsd we
> receive less than one spam per user per week. It's cleaner, faster, far
> more efficient and requires absolutely no maintenance. 

I have found greylisting and spamassassin alone provide almost 100% spam
protection.  I never really cared for using the network checks such as
Razor, Pyzor and the others.  Greylisting requires very little
maintenance as well.  :)
 
-- 
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com

The all-softening overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul, -- the dinner bell.
		-- Lord Byron 




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