Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:39:11 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & SPAM Message-ID: <3F803B1F.8070104@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <BBA2F131.16806%joe@jwebmedia.com> References: <BBA2F131.16806%joe@jwebmedia.com>
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Joseph Koenig wrote: > I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion > from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of > SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce > it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. > We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the > server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly > on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. > Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a > switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, > > Joe > We are running procmail, MIMEDefang and SpamAssassin. After some tweaking, it kills about 9 out of 10 spams. SpamAssissin can hog a lot of CPU if you handle a lot of emails, so make sure you are running it in daemon mode, that helps quite a bit. -- R
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