Optimizing Anti-Spam

[Shawn Iverson]

Or use postscreen

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Jason Waters <jason at geeknocity.com> wrote:

> Also using grey listing will help a lot.  You don't get your mail as
> "instant" but it really does cut spam down.
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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Miguel van Loon <m.van.loon at ictvanloon.nl
> > wrote:
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>> Hi dear,
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>> I suggest to use razor, pyzor and dcc.
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>> Into a combination of these three, your spam will be counting down
>> immediately! J
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>> I use them on my own system and I’m very happy with it.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> Miguel
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>> *Van:* MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+m.van.loon=ictvanloo
>> n.nl at lists.mailscanner.info] *Namens *Danita Zanre
>> *Verzonden:* woensdag 4 januari 2017 17:51
>> *Aan:* mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> *Onderwerp:* Optimizing Anti-Spam
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>> Hi all!  It’s been years since I’ve implemented something like
>> Mailscanner as part of an anti-spam system, but I’ve used various Linux
>> based systems like Maia Mailguard in the distant past.  I've used
>> appliances for quite awhile, but for various reasons have now chosen
>> Mailscanner for the task.  Right now I’m training and tweaking things on a
>> smaller subset domain rather than flipping the switch for my entire
>> system.  I’ve only been running for about 5 days or so.  I’m training the
>> bayes database multiple times a day with both spam and ham, and
>> Spamassassin is now active, but I have a lot of what I consider “obvious”
>> spam leaking through - vulgar words in the subject, sexual content, etc.
>> While my users will forgive marketing and general “junk”, they will be less
>> forgiving of these things ;-)
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>> I’m doing some research on the best settings to optimize.  I used to use
>> things like Razor, DCC, selective greylisting, custom rule sets.  I imagine
>> that these things have changed a lot in the past 10 years.  Can you give me
>> some ideas on some optimizations you use to tighten things up?
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>> Thanks!
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>> *Danita Zanrè*, *Move Out of the Office*
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>> I love my job, and you can too!
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>> Tel: (720) 319-7530 - Caledonia Network Consulting
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>> Tel: (720) 319-8240 - Move Out of the Office
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Shawn Iverson
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