From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 06:20:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D8C16A418 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE3613C447 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 81463 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Dec 2007 06:20:47 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 6.758794 secs); 13 Dec 2007 06:20:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Dec 2007 06:20:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4760CFC3.7060904@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:22:59 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kurt Buff References: <476086E2.5030402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions , Sten Daniel Soersdal Subject: Re: (postfix) SPAM filter? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:20:48 -0000 >> * Once it is setup then it would require no additional maintenance. >> * Potential spam messages are marked with a special header that can be >> filtered on user discretion on their local mail client software. > Yes, one recommendation for sure. Give up on your first goal. It'll > never happen, because fighting spam is an arms race, with new tactics > needing to be adopted. Amen (or Ahem, or what BSDie would say). There will *ALWAYS* be maintenance. If you are not developing new regexs and/or solutions to fight the daily produced techniques that make up SPAM, then you are implementing them. If there is anyone who disagrees, then you likely have not dealt with SPAM in an organization larger than a few thousand dispersed and non-educated users. If you have such, and you have no maintenance, then I beg your pardon. > Others will talk about other packages. It's worth taking a look at > each of them to figure out what works for you. ...agreed. It's also worth taking a look at ALL options, not just 'packages' to "figure out what works for you". Steve