Steven Camp
Steven.Camp@Cerzan.Com
Fri Aug 23 04:32:26 UTC 2002
We run an ISP with tens of thousands of users and thousands of domains.
Hundreds of domains
are sent email when no valid email address exists. These are excellent
candidates for creating
spam traps.
Our current configuration is similar to the IMgate anti spam
configuration described at:
http://imgate.meiway.com/IMGate-dual.cfm
We have 4 Postfix spam filters running as a mail gateway (IMGate in the
diagram). These feed a
set of mail delivery servers. Our current configuration stops a lot of
spam, but not nearly enough.
Our goal is to insert DCC into the Postfix system (IMGate in diagram),
preferably issuing
550 - rejects
on DCC detected "many" spam messages. The "550 - reject" is an effort
to discourage
spammers from continuing to send to our domains. I think this may not be
possible though.
Other messages I would like to flag as:
"Subject: [Probable SPAM] $Subject"
for lower probability hits.
In reading the documentation and the reference at:
http://www.rhyolite.com/pipermail/dcc/2001/000098.html
it appears that DCC needs to be inserted into the mail delivery machine.
This is _very_ undesirable
for us.
Have I read the documentation wrong? Can DCC be implemented into a mail
hub / relay environment
where local delivery does not exist .. preferably with postfix.
Before someone asks, we ran sendmail for about 6 years and have been
exclusively postfix for the past year.
We see about 4x performance with postfix over sendmail. We are _much_
happier with postfix.
Thanks,
-Steve Camp
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