From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 17:59:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E827116A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 17:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38D243D39 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 17:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from z3l3zt@hackunite.net) Received: from mail.hackunite.net ([213.112.193.12] [213.112.193.12]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with SMTP <20040513005956.RISI14728.mxfep02.bredband.com@mail.hackunite.net> for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 02:59:56 +0200 Received: from 213.112.193.11 (SquirrelMail authenticated user z3l3zt@hackunite.net) by mail.hackunite.net with HTTP; Thu, 13 May 2004 03:00:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <1886.213.112.193.11.1084410012.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 03:00:12 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jesper Wallin" To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: How do fix a good solution against spam.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: z3l3zt@hackunite.net List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 00:59:59 -0000 Heya folks First of all, sorry if this isn't the correct list, but yet, I think spam is a kind of network attack and should be treated as a security issue.. I run a working mail server using Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP, SpamAssassin and ClamAV (amavisd-new) .. I've checked the configuration file for SpamAssassin, but yet I havn't find any good solution for spam.. Sure, spam will always be a problem and I guess it's impossible to filter 100% of all spam.. Currently, I've made a filter in my mail client which move all mails with a header containing "Spam-Level: ***" to a "spam" directory.. The last 2 months, spam and spam only has been triggered/filtered.. so I think it's quite useful.. yet, it does send the mail.. if it's triggered spam, why does it even send it to the mailbox instead of just blocking it? I assume that's because of a bad configuration made by myself.. Also, a lot of mail which is spam is not triggered as spam, is it possible to improve spamassassin to filter more mails? Like, the way a antivirus program works, (have ids for each virus), does spamassassin has any "spam ids" or something similar to make it filter new mails? Once again, sorry if this mail has been sent to the wrong list, and sorry for asking alot of questions which might already been documented. Regards, Jesper Wallin