Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:18:53 +0200 From: "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & SPAM Message-ID: <3F7E826D.5030501@kmjeuro.com> In-Reply-To: <DF09779544EFD511A17D0002A587F9D30638A57E@EXCHANGE07> References: <DF09779544EFD511A17D0002A587F9D30638A57E@EXCHANGE07>
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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
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