[K12OSN] OT: just reduced spam by 95% with Free Software

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Sun Jan 28 20:09:53 UTC 2007


Terrell...more info please? ;)

--Huck

Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I will first admit that this is somewhat off-topic from K12LTSP.  That 
> said, schools could benefit from this.  This is definitely applicable 
> for those of you who asked about using K12LTSP as an email server for 
> your students.
> 
> We all know about the spam problem.  Well, over this last week, I have 
> been playing with OpenBSD's spamd as a possible solution.  Basically, I 
> put the spamd box in front of my (yes, GNU/Linux) email server.  I have 
> now reduced the spam count in my inbox from close to 200 a day down 
> to...five.  FIVE.  This is without false positives.  I have verified 
> that by studying my spamd logs all week and comparing them to my real 
> email server's logs.
> 
> For those of you with small pipes to the Internet, this is *definitely* 
> something you might want to consider.  It saves you some bandwidth.
> 
> If anyone's interested, let me know.
> 
> --TP
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