Re: FN-FORUM: Postfix and SPAM

date posted 5th February 2008 14:10


Ramnish Kalsi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using Postfix for some time with spamassassin. However, I
> have never been able to do anything worthwhile with the spam, and it
> keeps increasing by the day.
>
> I tried using RulesDuJour with spamassassin and added a bunch of
> rules, however, it turned out to be a major memory cruncher consuming
> 97-98% of 2GB RAM at times. I had to turn it off eventually.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction please, if there is one.
>
> --thanks.
>

Have you first tried grey listing? It will cut down a huge amount of
spam even before the filtering stage. I have not used it with postfix
but have had lots of success with "greylistd" and exim.

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