RE: uncatchable spam

I am sysadmin for an ISP..  I agree that filtering for customers based on To/Cc would not be appropriate unless directed by the customer.  

Greylisting, however, makes a huge difference.  This morning, for example, out of 130K emails presented to my mail server 110K emails did not pass greylisting.  I did not receive any complaints of missing email.



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Pazarena
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: uncatchable spam
> 
> On 10/5/2010 7:36 AM, Kevin Kargel wrote:
> > The biggest improvement I have gained in controlling emails like these
> is from implementing greylisting.  Aside from that if you filter and
> reject messages where your email address is not in the "To/Cc" you will
> eliminate a lot of them.
> 
> I am running an internet with a few thousand email clients, and frequently
> To/CC do not appear
> in ISP traffic, or do not match for various reasons.
> 
> Thanks,
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