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Re: [LUG] Glad I use Linux

 

On 25/10/06 00:15:17, Simon Waters wrote:
> Simon Avery wrote:
> >
> > Going to give things a while longer as they are, but it's good to
> know
> > there's another string to the bow if things don't work out.
> 
> I regard greylisting as almost essential these days, even if only  
> done
> selectively.
> 
> Experience here is that the SBL-XBL is amazingly trustworthy, so good
> I
> currently use it as a Yes/No block before greylisting, or anything
> else.
> 
> One should aim to reject spam before the SMTP transaction completes,
> so
> the false positives get returned to sender (rather than lost in a
> "possible spam" folder).

So long as return them to the real sender and not my spoofed  
address! :-)

I have noticed that a lot more spam is getting thru and I am not sure  
why.
mailscanner is still scanning it is just not detecting it.
I have tried to set up razor but it does not seem to be working at the  
moment and I am not sure why.
Not sure this would help though...

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