Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:26:00 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Matulis <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD's spamd. Message-ID: <20061217032600.1363.qmail@web60116.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <45844912.7070103@vindaloo.com>
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--- Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote: > Has anyone gotten a newer version of OpenBSD's spamd than the one in > ports going? I'm cvsupping my ports tree now but since I didn't see > an > update on the cvs server I'm assuming 3.7 is the latest version. > > Between OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8 spamd gained the ability to tarpit or > stutter at all connections for a configurable period of time. I > understand that stuttering for the first few seconds of the SMTP > dialog > causes many spammers to go away before even generating a greylisting > tuple. It's something I'd like to try and see for myself and it will > be > fairly easy since my primary MX is behind an OpenBSD firewall. > However, > my secondary MX is a FreeBSD box with no such protection and I fear > that > the spammers will just take advantage of the fact that my secondary > MX > has weaker protections than my primary. Yes, best practice is to configure all MX servers in the same way. Especially so if you plan to give spam servers a punch in the face (stuttering, greylisting, etc). I am also interested in spamd but will not use it because I do not have control of the other mailservers. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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