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Re: [LUG] email

 

What did you use for greylisting ?

Best regards

Mick

E: mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx


> From: <stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:50:12 +0100
> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [LUG] email
> 
> 
> On 25/06/09 11:50:21, Mick Vaites wrote:
>> Unfortunately if someone has run a dictionary attack on a domain the
>> number
>> of unwanted responses to locations that don't exist is a pain for
>> everyone -
>> so you cannot win either way.
>> 
> 
> G'day all,
> 
> I use...
> 
> greylisting
> dcc
> spamhaus
> only accept email for known address
> mailscanner (to look for virus, hardly ever get viruses now)
> 
> That seems to get rid of all the spam
> greylisting and spamhaus just drop the connection
> dcc I use to mark mail as spam, so I can have a look at it, I drop it
> into a seperate mailbox.
> 
> I got about 2500 email on the 25...
> 1226 got dropped by spamhuas
> 75 where to unkown users.
> 223 got delivered
> 19 got detected by dcc as bulk and were deliever to the possible spam
> mailbox.
> The rest where greylisted and never tried again.
> 
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