Fighting bogus news spam

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:19:54PM -0700, paul at paulbeard.org wrote:

> I have never gotten bogofilter to work in my Postfix-based setup, but what
> has been so far 100% effective is greylisting. Assuming spammers get no
> smarter, it should work just as well for some time to come.

Well bogofilter wasn't developed to work at the SMTP level like greylisting.
The approach is slightly different. :)

Beside that I remember a paper from a few years ago where two guys build
some smtp level filtering with qmail and bogofilter. I don't know if someone
ever tried it but something like this should be also possible with a postfix
policy service or through the milter interface.


> I'd like to engage bogofilter as well, but this will do until it gets
> easier or I get quicker in the uptake.

It works like a charm and isn't that hard. Maybe you should open another
thread and describe how you'd like to deploy bogofilter and where you
failed so far. Just because the list is mostly silent that doesn't mean
you're not allowed to disturb the silence. :)

Sven
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