Optimizing Anti-Spam

[Jason Waters]

Would you prefer postscreen or postgrey?

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Shawn Iverson <iversons at rushville.k12.in.us>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Miguel van Loon <
>> m.van.loon at ictvanloon.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi dear,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I suggest to use razor, pyzor and dcc.
>>>
>>> Into a combination of these three, your spam will be counting down
>>> immediately! J
>>>
>>> I use them on my own system and I’m very happy with it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Miguel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Danita Zanrè*, *Move Out of the Office*
>>>
>>> I love my job, and you can too!
>>>
>>> Tel: (720) 319-7530 - Caledonia Network Consulting
>>>
>>> Tel: (720) 319-8240 - Move Out of the Office
>>>
>>>
>>>
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