Blocking Spam

[Jeffrey Ross]

Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
> Todd Simi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm getting spammed to death.  I'm running sendmail and ClamAV.
>>   
> By far the most effective anti-spam measure I've ever used is 
> greylisting.  I don't use sendmail, but milter-greylist is in extras.  
> That, with spamassassin with nightly runs of sa-update is about the 
> best combination I've been able to find.
>
> Mike
>
I tried greylisting in combination with spamassassin and it really 
didn't buy me much, many of the spammers are starting to get intelligent 
and will retry the message in an attempt to get around the greylisting.

Spamassassin by far has worked very very well for me, and yes in 
addition to the sa-updates I have a handful of sare rules that get 
updated daily.

I'm down to 1 to 2 spam emails a day from a 50+ a day about 2 years ago 
before spamassassin.

Jeff