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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: perl script for postfix logs to create spamd tables
From:       Chad M Stewart <cms () Balius ! com>
Date:       2005-10-31 22:55:35
Message-ID: 2BD155A4-1F9D-4F22-91E1-6A85BDE24293 () Balius ! com
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Why would you want to do that?  Put spamd in front of postfix and sit  
back and watch the spammers waste their time.  Sure the first few  
hours can be trying as legitimate mail trickles through.  Before I  
deployed spamd for the first time I lowered the passtime and tested.   
Once I was satisfied that things would work as they should I put  
spamd in production.  When I started getting my misc@ messages again  
I knew things were working. :)

Today I got my first indication that another site is having  
problems.  A credit card company told me when I logged into their  
website that my email address was no longer valid and to please  
update.  The funny thing is that some messages from them do make it  
to me.  I look at it this way, the problem is on their end.  spamd  
simply enforces the RFCs and after all following the RFCs is a good  
thing.  I remember the mid 90s when there were so many totally  
ignorant SMTP servers out there.  Perhaps there are still some, but  
overall things appear to be much better now.  If the sending site  
can't be bothered to run a mail system that honors a simple and basic  
component of the RFCs then they don't take email seriously.

With my old bank I had to tell them to fix their sending gateways,  
they did and I started getting messages again.  I sent their zone  
contact the relevant part of the RFCs.


-Chad

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