[sanesecurity] Re: SV: signature db advice
- From: micah anderson <micah@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Langeland Olav Andreas <oala@xxxxxx>, "'sanesecurity\@freelists.org'" <sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:03:37 -0500
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:10:30 +0100, Langeland Olav Andreas <oala@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've been pretty happy with the signatures for some time now...
> > however, since the end of December my users have been crying about the
> > huge load of spam that has been coming in. People say things like "I'm
> > getting pages of spam a day, I've been using this account for 10 years
> > and it has never been this bad..." I'm trying to find a way to deal
> > with this, and so far haven't found any good solution.
>
> [....]
>
> As a sidenote I can recommend implementing greylisting, I have been
> using postfix+postgrey for several years. Its been around for a while
> now, but is still quite effective against spam entering your MTA with
> a very low risk.
I was using postgrey for a while, but I really process a lot of incoming
mail, and at some point it was just falling over due to the load and
when it did that it would cause bounces, which was not a good failure
mode :P
micah
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