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From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:31:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11096124-8137-97f3-29c7-a88e67dc9cfd@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274eb5fe2051d0052af14155ba75a0a@quintile.net>

On 09/20/2017 04:54 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> My spam filtering is all plan9 based but the ideals are all portable.

I would love to hear more about how (and why) you're using Plan9.  I'm 
naively curious.

> Greylisting and delaying a few secs before starting the SMTP
> conversation are my most successful filters, After this comes
> SPF and using spamhaus to validate the senders IP.

I forgot about pre-greeting delay.  I also use that.  It's amazing how 
much difference even 1 second makes.

I think it's also amazing how many spam bots try tricks to get around 
spam filtering, like connecting to a high order MX that hypothetically 
has less spam filtering.  -  JunkEmailFilter's Project Tarbaby does 
phenomenal work with that.  Plus, it feeds their RBL which I use as a 
data signal for SpamAssassin.  }:-)

> I reject some silly domains like localhost.com and usernames like
> user and test.

Are you referring to the purported sender?  Or something in your domain?

Are you referring to SMTP Authentication or email addresses?

I have disabled SMTP Authentication on my main MTA and only allow it on 
my MSA.

> I also have a list of regexps which match the reverse dns
> addresses of adsl blocks which catch many spam bots.

Thankfully I've not had to deal with those.  (At least not that I'm 
aware of.)

> The regexps sound like a lot of work but I have some scripts to
> analyse my logs and suggest  patterns, so its just a click or two
> I can block somthing like:
> 
> 	dhcp.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.adsl.nasty-isp.net

Nice.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20 16:25 Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 16:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 19:59   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 21:26     ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 23:17     ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  0:00       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  0:08         ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  0:55           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  1:52             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  4:14               ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  5:30                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:43                   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21  0:38         ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  1:30         ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-09-21  1:57           ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  3:04             ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  5:20               ` Grant Taylor
     [not found]       ` <20170921042528.E12C5156E523@mail.bitblocks.com>
2017-09-21  4:45         ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  4:58           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  5:34             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:49               ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 16:46 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 17:01   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:39   ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 22:54   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-20 16:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-20 17:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:14   ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 18:15   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 23:45     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20 22:54   ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 23:31     ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2017-09-20 23:57     ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21  0:02       ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21  1:08     ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 12:36       ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 17:47 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 17:54 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-09-20 17:57 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 18:22   ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:11     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 19:25     ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 19:54       ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:09   ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:26   ` Michael Parson
2017-09-20 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 18:51 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-09-20 20:13 ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-20 22:25   ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 12:40 ` Ben Greenfield
2017-09-23  9:12 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-21 20:05 Norman Wilson
2017-09-21 21:02 ` Grant Taylor

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