[ Patrice Levesque wrote on Tue 25.Sep'12 at 16:48:53 -0400 ] > > > I'm really tempted to just go back to hosting my own email, but I > > don't feel like trudging through tons of spam every day. > > If I may add my own 2ยข, greylisting + a bayesian-filter-enabled > spamassassin does *really* prevent most of the junk from entering your > INBOX. At the expense of slight delays for new sender-recipient-server > combinations, and very slight CPU usage, I find spam not to be a worry > anymore on a self-hosted mail server. Situation violently improved > since 2002 :)
I can confirm this as well. I use pf on FreeBSD with the spamd greylisting program. Then mail is filtered using spamassassin and clamav-milter for sendmail, I also use the sanesecurity signatures for clamav which works beautifully. I do not get spam. With spamd greylisting and pf email addresses, ip ranges and single ip's can be blocked with a a single command using a table. You have to read up on it a bit naturally, but it works. There's no doubt.
