After far too long I’ve finally setup spamd to greylist inbound mail into vindaloo.com. This is something that I should have done a while ago. Before spamd I used a simple filtering setup for email based on Spam Assassin and using SA’s Bayes filter. It works okay but I was never happy with the performance that it needed from my box. When I first started this I was able to handle all the mail for vindaloo.com on a SparcStation 20 running OpenBSD. That’s not really special since I typically have less than 5 users. Disk space concerns forced me to upgrade to a VA Linux 2200, still running OpenBSD. That’s been very good but I’m now running into the same problems that I’ve had before. If there is any holdup in the mail system then the mail server gets hammered while the MX boxes on the internet offload mail. It’s easy to figure out why this is. I just look at the count of messages in my spam and junkmail folders. Lets see 376 messages in spam and another 246 in junkmail. That’s about 3 days worth of mail. That’s right. Despite Javascript veiling and everything else I do I get over 150 spams per day. Or at least I did until I started running spamd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spamd After far too long I’ve finally setup spamd to greylist inbound mail into vindaloo.com. This is something that I should have done a while ago. Before spamd I used a simple filtering setup for email based on Spam Assassin and using SA’s Bayes filter. It works okay but I was never happy with the … <\/p>\n