Re: [bitfolk] Spam overwhelming my mail server

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Author: Ian
Date: 2014-02-18 12:27 -000
To: users
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Spam overwhelming my mail server
Michael said:

> I used greylisting for a while, but I found too many false positives
> (for me) with sites that are "legit" but don't work with it. Generally
> it seemed to be situations like big sites that would retry from one of a
> cluster of MTA boxes.
>
> Do you have any problems? Maybe the world has improved since I last
> tried it.


Postgrey comes with some whitelisted exceptions for places like Google,
but they aren't the ones who are sending the spam.

There is one source I needed to whitelist myself, but they're the sort
of place that rejects postmaster@ email with 'no such user', sigh.

Ian