On Wednesday 02 July 2003 16:23, MKlinke wrote:
> Well,
>
> Not all the mail we receive is flowing through the filter server yet,
> some is still being delivered direct to our regular unfiltered
> server, but a substantial portion of it is now being filtered.
>
> From my point of view this testing has been a resounding success! In
> the past 30 hours the anti-spam mail server I set up has intercepted
> a little over 3300 spam messages that would have been normally
> delivered to our email accounts.
>
> About 500 of these have been passed along to our regular mail server
> but marked with the *****SPAM***** Subject: and the X-Spam-Level
> Header entries.  The remaining 2800 have been simply blocked either
> because they are for bogus e-mail accounts or they are from known
> spam sources (50%/50%).
>
> Any time a message gets blocked it will be rejected and a note sent
> back to the originating server listing the reason, just in case
> someone you know has had his/her server listed as a known spam
> source.  I am currently using http://spamhaus.org as a spam source
> identification lookup database.
>
> Since this looks like it's working so well,  I plan to implement a
> more permanent front end filter server here at the office but will
> keep the filter server I have set up at home as a secondary backup
> for our mail servers here.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Regards,  Mike Klinke

Heh,

Didn't mean to send this to the RH list but what the heck!  As I said to 
my office mates, let me know if you have any questions!

Regards,  Mike Klinke


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