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[Discuss] Torrent of new spam
- Subject: [Discuss] Torrent of new spam
- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:36:29 -0500
- In-reply-to: <22696.33910.541280.535141@blazemonger.com>
- References: <14acf51d2c71ae163d9a5f1ad84aaa3a.squirrel@webmail.ci.net> <22696.33910.541280.535141@blazemonger.com>
On 2/18/2017 12:29 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > Where spamassassin is based on heuristics, spastic is literal. You > simply create blacklists and whitelists for blocking & permitting > emails. The lists can include "To" and "From" addresses, subject lines > (substrings), body text, etc. Each list is a plain text file. Static lists like these are a pain to manage. When I tried it I spent more time tweaking lists than reading mail. When a previous employer of mine tried static lists it turned into a full time job for one of our sysadmins. In my experience, grey listing at the SMTP server offers the best bang for the buck. It drops on the order of 95% of incoming spam before it can get into the mail server with no false positives -- it won't drop legitimate mail. Grey listing requires no maintenance and it is very light on system resources. -- Rich P.
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