[wplug] Thoughts & Considerations for email server

[Bill Moran]

Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
>
> Not sure why Bill didn't mention it, but he did an excellent
> presentation <http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/spam.pdf> some
> time ago on controlling spam.

Mainly because of the age.  Looking at it again, however, not much
of it is out of date.  SPF seems to have failed, but aside from
that, it's all still pretty relevant.

> I'd suggest that greylisting is something you want to seriously
> consider implementing.  My mail provider first started out using
> SpamAssassin, which was of limited usefulness.  Greylisting
> greatly cut down on the volume of spam.  Plus, it'll save you on
> storage and on CPU cycles burned by content/virus scanning.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com