On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:33:31AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: > Still, is it too much to ask for looking at > things from many angles or backing up claims with any kind of > statistics or science instead of personal gut feelings?
Where/how would one collect such data? My mail stream differs from yours, as does my spam problem. The best, meticulously gathered statistics from one site won't be applicable to another site. Unfortunately the gut is what we have. My gut feeling is that SPF lookups are the surest way to make this scheme work without causing some kind of problem. Yes, my MX is also the outbound relay, but at bigger sites this is less likely. Another gut feeling: greylisting is past its prime. I do it using postscreen, but I sometimes consider disabling the deep protocol tests. The DNSBL scoring system is what blocks most of my spam. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
