From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 08:39:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915A316A4BF for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 08:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1877743FE0 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 08:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h95FdCd0047932; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:39:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3F803B1F.8070104@401.cx> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:39:11 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Koenig References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & SPAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 15:39:23 -0000 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