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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:15:03 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        FreeeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin vs mail/postgrey
Message-ID:  <20040926001503.GD1233@k7.mavetju>

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If you're running spam assassin in combination with a real mail
server (i.e. not only using it after you've popped mail from your
ISP), have a look at greylisting with for example mail/postgrey
(postfix).

A random day before we used greylisting:
    
root@mag:~# bzcat /var/log/viruscan.6.bz2 | grep "code 4"  | wc
     282    4948   29875
root@mag:~# bzcat /var/log/maillog.6.bz2 | grep "identified spam" | wc
     773   11595   83109

A random day since we've been using greylisting:

root@mag:~# grep "code 4" /var/log/viruscan | wc
      14     196    1483
root@mag:~# grep "identified spam" /var/log/maillog| wc
      38     570    4112
    
I think you can call that "decapitated".

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Edwin Groothuis      |            Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org
edwin@mavetju.org    |          Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/



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