Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 20:12:30 +0200 From: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <me@niklaas.eu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice for setting up mail server Message-ID: <20160807181230.GD12411@len-t420.klaas> In-Reply-To: <20160807180149.GC12411@len-t420.klaas> References: <VI1PR02MB0974A0FB1361638BDD437043F61A0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <2394887a809b4ad8e702d1d13bb1337c@mail.zplay.eu> <20160807180149.GC12411@len-t420.klaas>
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Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff [2016-08-07 20:01 +0200] : > What I can highly recommend is mail/spamd. I learned about it in > the FreeBSD Handbook. However, documentation there seems a bit > old so it's not longer correct. Spamd offers greylisting too but, > as mentioned above, there are reasons not to enable that. > However, you can also run it in blocking mode solely. This way it > collects updated entries on malicious hosts that you can pipe to > PF and block with your firewall. Very resource-friendly. Read > spamd(8) for how to configure it properly (and don't trust the > handbook on it). I forgot to mention postscreen(8). For its functionality see http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html I just learned about it some weeks ago, so I haven't tested it yet. Anyway, I guess it's a cleverer and less resource hungry solution than other anti-spam tool. Niklaas
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