Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:12:15 -0600 From: Jack Barnett <jackbarnett@gmail.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No spam??? Message-ID: <478BC21F.5040307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87A9631B-EAC5-41B8-B4C2-001C3ADBA486@identry.com> References: <87A9631B-EAC5-41B8-B4C2-001C3ADBA486@identry.com>
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John Almberg wrote: > Last week I set up a brand new mail server with a combination of > pf/spamassassin/maildrop for spam filtering... Everything seems to > work great. All real mail seems to be getting through. I monitored the > spamd and maildrop logs during the first few days to make sure my very > conservative spam settings (spamd marks email that scored higher than > 5 as spam, and maildrop drops spam that scores higher than 12) to make > sure that real mail isn't getting dropped. > > At the beginning of the week, I was getting a few spam a day in my > spam folder. What has me spooked is that this whole weekend I got > exactly one spam in my spam folder (a false positive, in fact). This > is down from around 500 that I normally get per day (which is why I > was keen to get an up-to-date mailserver!) > > I know this is an odd thing to worry about, but is this normal? Since > the spam doesn't even seem to be reaching spamd, I'm guessing that the > real hero is pf, which must be blocking 99.99% of spam at the packet > level. > > Is this normal? > > TIA: John > > _______________________________________________ > 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" How did you setup pf? You just have a 'generic' blacklist?
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