From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 01:19:12 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 EF9C616A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 01:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sv07e.atm-tzs.kmjeuro.com (sv07e.atm-tzs.kmjeuro.com [193.81.94.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14A443FF7 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 01:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k.joch@kmjeuro.com) Received: from kmjeuro.com (adsl.sbg.kmjeuro.com [62.99.198.46]) (authenticated bits=0)h948Ir0s078982 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:18:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from k.joch@kmjeuro.com) Message-ID: <3F7E826D.5030501@kmjeuro.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:18:53 +0200 From: "Karl M. Joch" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: please visit www.ctseuro.com for further instructions. Protected by www.ctseuro.com X-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:19:13 -0000 Sean Page wrote: > Granted it's not an inexpensive solution, but we switched from SpamAssassin > to PureMessage by ActiveState. > http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage > We are thoroughly impressed with the accuracy and the dynamic feature set of > the product. Automatic updates come down at least a couple of times a week > to keep up with the latest tactics, and the support is second to none. > Just my $.02 worth > > Sean. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kliment Andreev [mailto:klimenta@futurebit.com] > Sent: October 3, 2003 9:23 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD & SPAM > > > >>>>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 > > > Check www.kaspersky.com for anti-virus and anti-spam tools for FreeBSD. If > you decide to use SpamAssassin and if you have a lot of spam-mail coming and > a slow server, mind that it will clog you CPU very, very soon. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" blocking dynamic ip and dialup users with dnsbl lists reduces 60-70% of the spam. there is a very good one on an .nl server. for some special ones an access list helps. adding a combination of mailscanner and spamassassin to sendmail does the rest. the rest which comes thru is not really a lot of mails. and all of that stuff is open source and free. happyly running above things with 50k+ mails / day. -- Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Karl M. Joch http://www.freebsd.at - Das Power Betriebssystem