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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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Subject: Re: No spam???
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, John Almberg wrote:

[...]
> 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?

I don't know if it's normal or not, but it sounds like a great result. 
Would you mind sharing your pf config?

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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