Re: FN-FORUM: Postfix and SPAM

date posted 5th February 2008 14:26

On 05/02/2008 15:25, William Fidell wrote:
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>
> 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.
>
> W
>

There's postgrey for postfix:

http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/

Martin