Re: [exim] anti-spam pointers please

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] anti-spam pointers please
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 22:12, Rory Campbell-Lange via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:

> Hi
>
> It's some years since I've spent time tweaking my exim setup to receive
> spam. I've forgotten any skills I might once have had in this area.
>
> I've gotten sick of getting 30+ spam emails a day and need to do something
> about it! I'd be grateful for some pointers to the state-of-the-art setup.
>
> right now relay blocks, cram_md5 rejects and spamhaus blocks account for
> about
> 500-1000 rejections a day (no wonder everyone has gone to Google mail!).
>
> I'm running Exim 4.89-2+deb9u3 under Debian, with spamassassin/spamc
> 3.4.2.1
>
> Spamd is reporting along the following lines.
>
>         spamd: result: . 0 - BAYES_00,
>                                 DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,
>                                 DKIM_SIGNED,
>                                 DKIM_VALID,
>                                 DKIM_VALID_EF,
>                                 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,
>                                 HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,
>                                 MAILING_LIST_MULTI,
>                                 SPF_PASS,
>                                 URIBL_BLOCKED scantime=0.5,
>                                 size=5448,
>                                 user=mail,
>                                 uid=8,
>                                 required_score=3.0,
>                                 rhost=127.0.0.1,
>                                 raddr=127.0.0.1,
>                                 rport=59670,
>                                 mid=<example.mail.com>,
>                                 bayes=0.000000,
>                                 autolearn=disabled

>
> Pointers much appreciated.
>
> Rory




Hello Rory,

Long time!

Lately, you can also substitute rspamd for SpamAssassin.
I hope you are also doing rDNS checks. They help me block many spammers too.



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