23 Mar
2007
23 Mar
'07
11:50 a.m.
I used to run my own mailserver, albeit on FreeBSD. The sheer
quantity of SPAM and other junk addressed to, and from, my domains was
astounding. From was worse, as I got all the bounces, which are
technically legitimate messages. It was a constant battle. I gave up
in the end and pointed the MX over to google-apps-for-domains. The
spam-filter seems pretty good, and it's not sucking up my bandwidth.
(And at least with google you don't have to transfer the whole DNS
like some hositng providers want.)
If you are sure you want to run your own mailserver, I'd agree - put
something in front. If you haven't got a UNIX or Linux box already on
your network, you should be able to find a cheap Linux based router
you can put your choice of MTA on..
Rob
On 23/03/07, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
Is there anything I can do about this?
Originally I moved from sendmail to qmail with magic-smtpd because it
allowed me to filter at the SMTP level inbound names (and reject them before
a bounce was generated).
http://www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/magicmail/magic-smtpd/
I thought someone here wrote a proxy to do that also (not sure)
I've since moved to postfix with "grey listing" using postgrey, which
seems
to work pretty well.
I think until you turn on grey listing you're going to be unhappy. I
seem long, relentless streams of bogus connections and bogus names all
day long... At a minimum you need to be filtering names at the SMTP
connection time. (translation - put something in front of openvms and relay)
-brad