From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 8 18:20:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFC116A403 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corwin@aeternal.net) Received: from amber.aeternal.net (amber.aeternal.net [212.232.17.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B02E13C458 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corwin@aeternal.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.aeternal.net [127.0.0.1]) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFD0B82E for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:59:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at aeternal.net Received: from amber.aeternal.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (amber.aeternal.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Wi6S8CWo0CeD for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:59:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (chello085216248040.chello.sk [85.216.248.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: corwin@aeternal.net) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59837B826 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:59:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46192D6E.7040408@aeternal.net> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:59:10 +0200 From: Martin Hudec User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0875b56eeca4d320fd9fa7b0d940fce2@uni-svishtov.bg> In-Reply-To: <0875b56eeca4d320fd9fa7b0d940fce2@uni-svishtov.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: advice on anti-spam tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: corwin@aeternal.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:20:27 -0000 Angelin Lalev wrote: > My e-mail server is running the latest spamassassin with all of the blacklist enabled and etc. > but I still receive over 20 spam messages a day ("image" spam mostly). > The situation with other users may be worse. That's why I was thinking about some tool that > 1. store incoming email > 2. send request to the sender of the message, requiring to go to some address and enter the numbers (letters) > from image > 3. if the puzzle is solved in time (week or so) deliver the message, otherwise delete it. > > Is there such tool(s) ? As for image spam, it might be worthy to try out that mail/p5-FuzzyOcr as recommended by Kurt few days ago. I am considering to deploy it, as majority of the spam I am receiving is image one. Also check mail/spamass-rules_du_jour. From my experience, simple setup of spamassassin, also feeding it with samples of 3800 spams and 3000 hams, and deployment of these rules du jour allowed me to get from (counted on per day basis) 314 spams to 8 spams received to all of my 12 domains I have on my system, actually with two of those domains having some of their mail addresses spreaded widely on the net on various maillists etc. Data are statistical from January measurements, and though they might not be that much impressive in larger scale, they serve my purposes very well (getting to ~2.5% of the previous volume is quite fine for me). And one more thing, I do not have any greylisting at all, which would probably help the things even more. nice evening, Martin