[jdev] Re: email is a slum

Jesper Krogh jesper at krogh.cc
Fri Jun 11 11:59:43 CDT 2004


I gmane.network.jabber.devel, skrev Greg Hewgill:
>  On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:41:45AM -0500, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > OK, given the problems I'm having with mailman right now and all the
> > spam that gets sent with spoofed from addresses, I'm seriously wondering
> > if we can do mailing lists via pubsub. Email is a slum.
> 
>  I can't offer suggestions for help with mailman, but publishing SPF
>  records (http://spf.pobox.com) for your domain, and checking them on
>  the system running mailman, will help stop the spoofed spam problem.

The bad thing about spf, is that it doesn't work until lots are using
it. 

Try out Greylisting, http://www.greylisting.org (postgrey on google if
you are running postfix) it took way over 90% of my spam. 

Jesper

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