Tom Lane said: > Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com> writes: > > is there some way of getting a look at tom's or marc's filters? i could > > sure use a bit of help there. lordy, we're close to drowing in the > > stuff! > > Tell me about it :-( > > I currently use four levels of filtering: > > 1. DNSBL lists: blackholes.five-ten-sg.com, bl.spamcop.net, relays.ordb.org > (there are others out there, but these seem to have a good impedance > match to my personal spam load). > > 2. Private blacklist of IP ranges that have sent me too much spam. > sendmail has a pretty easy mechanism to support this, although it > only seems to support /8 /16 or /24 ranges which is a bit coarse. > (If you've gotten a "Go away spammer" bounce from me, you were caught > by this filter --- let me know and I'll tighten the ranges.) > > 3. I have noticed that bouncing any machine that sends "HELO > sss.pgh.pa.us" gets rid of a ton of spam and viruses. I don't know of > any real clean way to do this, but I have a sendmail.cf hack for it. > > 4. Very long list of procmail filters on header and body patterns. > > #2 and #4 are fairly personal, in the sense that they have a decent > success/failure ratio for the junk mail I get. I wouldn't recommend > that someone else try my lists, and in any case they take a heck of a > lot of hand maintenance. I've been looking into more automated methods > such as CRM114 but haven't made the jump yet. Yes they sure are. I tried my personal blacklist on a client's server one time after they complained of seeing dozens a minute slipping by. It did just about nothing, but it got them started on their own. #3 looks interesting though... Best regards, Jim Wilson ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org