spam...

[E Frank Ball]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:59:33AM -0800, Mike Egan, ME wrote:
} Hello all,
} 
} I have just been playing with spam assassin and squirrelmail and maildrop
} and found spam filtering can be a pretty cool thing. I suggest a talk on
} what to do to decrease spam on a Linux server, and Linux client.
} 
} I could talk about this so long as someone else is willing to cover the
} RedHat counterparts for the installation of the packages...

No talk on spam would be complete without a discussion of procmail
filtering, mailserver configuration (postfix access list type things),
and firewall configuration (blackhole Asia, Central and South America,
etc.)  also.  At sonic I use procmail to delete 80% of my mail before
routing to spamassassin.  At home I bypass spamassassin for 90% of my
mail because spamassasin is such a resource pig, and most of my
blacklisting is done at the firewall.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com