cRAZY mAD wITH spam

Posted by mweber on Nov 15, 2008 8:21 PM EDT
BeginLinux.com; By Mike Weber 		Mail this story
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I am involved in a very personal war … a war on Spam not because I must, everybody else lives with it, but just because it makes me mad! Spam has made me so mad I have gone on a personal goal to cut the Spam on my servers to 0%…realistic, probably not. Die trying…yep that’s me.

So in this “adventure” of finding as many ways as possible to combat spam I continue to work with the excellent mail server Postfix. The more time I spend with Postfix the better I like it and the more features I find I can use and create unique ways to attack the Spam issue.

One of the things I like about Postfix is many options to deal with Spam. Using a combination of configuration options I have made huge inroads to meeting my goal of 0%. It was not really rocket science but more of making some additional effort to deal with several smaller issues. header checks is just one of the options available. One of the reasons that header checks can be so effective is that Postfix allows you to drop mail before you waste server resources on it. Yes…that is very important when you realize that between 70-95% of all mail you get is trashed. As a mail server administrator and as a person who must purchase the hardware for the server, that makes me frustrated because 70-95% of my costs are based on Spam.

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Better people than you have tried, and actually gone mad phsolide 5 1,314 Nov 17, 2008 5:49 PM

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