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From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:57:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170920235713.1BED6156E523@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:54:34 +0100." <1274eb5fe2051d0052af14155ba75a0a@quintile.net>

What is needed  is an SMTP "Brita" filter!

  crud+legit email => smtp filter => legit email

This then goes to your usual MTA. Steve, this may be
the killer app for plan9!

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:54:34 +0100 "Steve Simon" <steve at quintile.net> wrote:
"Steve Simon" writes:
> My spam filtering is all plan9 based but the ideals are all portable.
> 
> 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 reject some silly domains like localhost.com and usernames like
> user and test.
> 
> I also have a list of regexps which match the reverse dns
> addresses of adsl blocks which catch many spam bots.
> 
> 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
> 
> -Steve


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 23:57 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
2017-09-20 23:57     ` Bakul Shah [this message]
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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