The Spam Thread

[lilDeath]

SPF has not been accepted as a standard due to its controversy, hence the scepticism.
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[ambo]

Now how about a workstation (or workstations) which gets compromised and starts sending out spam on an SPF-enabled network?

True - SPF has no protection against that. However SPF will be providing validation of the email address that is being used - thus making the source of the spam very easy to find and squash. Instead of the current situation where knowledgable people have to dig through headers to trace the source of an email.

SPF has not been accepted as a standard due to its controversy, hence the scepticism.

HUH?? It is an RFC - that makes it an accepted standard... am i not correct?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Good news people... the latest release of the dspam mail filter implementation for Smoothwall have been released.

There was a few bugs which was fixed, but it now supports greylisting functionality. Imagine having 0% spam without having to train or setup filtering... a sysadmin's dream come true. Of course, there will be the odd spammy mail or two, but these can be blocked by using RBL or mail filtering.

I tested it, and everything is working just fine. I am impressed with it, as it cut my workload drastically, so I don't have to train the spam filter anymore.

Except for the spammers... they can't get any spam through to us. Which is fine with me... anything to stop these stupid fsckers.

You can get the new release here.

A few brave souls might venture forth and port it to IPCop - this should be easy as IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall...

At the moment, only the SMTP protocol is supported, but the author will be looking at adding POP3 support at a later stage.

Regards

TU