Re: About spam in the list archive
Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> I administer some servers with customers and these are some of the facts
> I've found:
> * Many spam emails do not comply with the specs
> Meaning: enforcing the RFC's when receiving emails could block some spam
I agree entirely. Also, Exim's acl's seem to allow a flexible
score-based way to set these things up. If the sender matches an RBL,
you add a bit to the score; if it botches its HELO, add a bit to the
score and so on. After dealing with the obvious failures and passes,
you can take stuff in the "grey area" and behave a bit oddly, such as
slower responses, and see if that makes the remote end breach
protocol. Many spammers will breach protocol if you do anything even
a little unusual and I'm happy to reject the email then.
Last time I checked, I was rejecting well over 50% of send attempts
even before they reached the expensive content checks and I'm pretty
confident that they were junk. I should document my setup soon...
Regards,
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