On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:05 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > David Hoffman wrote: > > I looked for any discussion lists about greylisting and haven't found > > any, so I thought I might try asking here. > > > > I'm considering adding greylisting to my postfix configuration, and > > some of the articles I have been reading about greylisting show that > > there can be any of several situations in which greylisting would not > > be a viable solution. > > > > In particular they mention issues with how some MTAs break something > > in the RFC that makes greylisting work, and how receiving mail from a > > site which uses multiple relay hosts (each with a different address) > > can also cause mail to not be delivered. > > > > So I thought I would ask on the list to see if anyone has done much > > with greylisting and found it to be good or bad. > > I installed milter-greylist-1.6. It got rid of 95% of my SPAM email. > I went from 300-400 messages a day to 2-3. And those are coming in > through my fetchmail account, so there's not much I can do about it. > I rely on Spamassassin and the Bayesian filters in Thunderbird to get > rid of most of those. > > I liked greylist-1.6 so much that I made an FC2 RPM (and SRPM) for it > (from the 1.4 SRPM and the 1.6 tarball). It is available here: > > http://kjchome.homeip.net:81/milter-greylist-1.6-0.i386.rpm > http://kjchome.homeip.net:81/milter-greylist-1.6-0.src.rpm > > > I do also use the DNSBL lists, and some of my accounts also use TMDA. > > What I am hoping for is that with greylisting, I can further reduce > > the amount of spam mail traffic. > > I started by using SPAMHAUS blocking in sendmail. Then I installed > Spamassassin (as a procmail filter to flag SPAM), and then I added the > SPF-milter. None of these made dent like milter-greylist did! > > I'm still running all four, and a much happier camper now. ---- you might want to have Dag Wieers look at your packaging and see if he wants to add something similar to his repository - it would sort of fit. Craig
