[ale] Spam Blocking Alternatives

Stuffed Crust pizza at shaftnet.org
Tue Apr 27 13:40:00 EDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:35:50AM -0400, John Allgood wrote:
> We are looking into switching from our current MailScanner + SpamAssassin 
> Gateway set-up over to a more flexible commercial software package. 
> We just got done evaluating Sophos PureMessage, but it was more than we 
> wanted to spend. The Sophos software was blocking 98% of spam but it is 
> more tailored to the enterprise market. 

I'm using a combination of sendmail plus three filters -- but the one 
that's made the biggest difference is milter-gris, which uses a 
technique known as greylisting.   It's reduced the spam to nearly a 
trickle, and that's without applying anything else on top like 
spamassissin or bogofilter.  :)

 - Pizza
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