On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 22:53, Neal Rhodes wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. What I am looking for is an SMTP gateway with > features to avoid getting some of the spam in the first place, such as > time delay within the SMTP protocol, reverse DNS lookups, header analysis, > refusal to relay, and other tricks which discourage spam delivery. As I > understood it, Spamassassin works after the mail is received, and marks > suspect email for deletion, and takes a fair amount of tinkering and updating > to stay functional. greylisting is very simple and very effective and can be applied with any of the MTAs currently available. One site I worked on was receiving between 5000 and 8000 spam a day. After implementing greylisting only 5 to 10 spam a day came into the system which spamassassin took care of. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Have no friends not equal to yourself. -- Confucius