Increased Volumes Of Spam
Richard Frovarp
Richard.Frovarp at sendit.nodak.edu
Tue Jan 16 18:39:26 CET 2007
Randal, Phil wrote:
> Which MTA are you using?
>
> If it's Sendmail 8.13, consider using the GreetPause feature. You'll
> need to tune this because there are many broken MTAs out there.
>
> cbl.abuseat.org or zen.spamhaus.org are both good enough to reject mail
> at the MTA level, search the archives for the details of how to override
> the rbls for specific senders / recipients in sendmail's "access" file.
>
> And try milter-greylist as well. I use a bunch of less reliable RBLs to
> greylist by.
>
> Use the rules from www.rulesemporium.com (and the rules_du_jour script).
>
> I find "Fred's Headers" rule useful too.
>
These can now be pulled using sa-update. I am pretty sure I saw
something a while ago that state in effect that rule_du_jour is going
away in favor of sa-update. Instructions in the SA wiki on how to use
SARE rules with sa-update.
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