Re: [Hampshire] test message

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Author: Gordon Scott
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To: lug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] test message
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 10:59 +0000, Vic wrote:
> > My server started to get very very slow, and when I investigated it was
> > because it was trying to dump around 6000 spams a day
>
> I get rather more than that :-)


Very likely; that was 8 years ago.

> The trick is to reject (never bounce) the spam as early as possible. At
> the moment, the bulk seem to be forging the same address as they're
> sending to (i.e. pretending to be me).


The slow server day was also the very day that I finally gave up on
courtesy bounces.

> My SPF filter punts them out in short order before it even gets to
> SpamAssassin :-)


I now let my ISP do most of it.
Seems to work OK as I lose little I expect, and I see little I don't
expect.

G.
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