Re: FN-FORUM: Postfix and SPAM

date posted 7th February 2008 09:59

Thanks for the tips guys. I have got postgrey working now. Lets see how it goes.

By the way, is there any tool to see the spam rejected because of postgrey and

I did find some scripts on the web which take in a postfix log file
but nothing conclusive.

--thanks.

On 5 Feb 2008 15:39:34 -0000, Martin Wheatley
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On 05/02/2008 15:25, William Fidell wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
>
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