[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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