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

[Nils Breunese]

Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:

> 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.

If your K12LTSP server can handle it, why not just run spamd (which  
is just the SpamAssassin daemon, right?) on your K12LTSP server  
directly? I don't think there is a difference between OpenBSD's spamd  
and Fedora Core's spamd, is there?

Nils Breunese.
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