http://www.netvouz.com/falko/tag/mta?feed=rss falko's bookmarks tagged "mta" on Netvouz http://www.howtoforge.com/block_spam_at_mta_level_postfix The last few weeks have seen a dramatic increase in spam (once again). Estimates say that spam makes now up for 80 - 90% of all emails, and many mail servers have difficulties in managing the additional load caused by the latest spam, and spam filters such as SpamAssassin do not recognize large parts of that spam as they did before. Fortunately, we can block a big amount of that spam at the MTA level, for example by using blacklists, running tests on the sender and recipient domains, etc. An additional benefit of doing this is that it lowers the load on the mail servers because the (resource-hungry) spamfilters have to look at less emails. falko Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:59:29 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_getmail Getmail is a program for retrieving emails from remote servers; it is very similar to fetchmail, but more flexible. For example, it can be configured to deliver mails directly to a Maildir or mbox mailbox without the need for an MTA such as Postfix, but of course it can also pipe the mails through an MTA if you want. Getmail can use so called filters such as SpamAssassin and ClamAV to scan the mails, and you can even tell getmail to delete mails on the original server only after a certain number of days. falko Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:34:45 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-spamsnake-ubuntu-jeos-12.04-lts-precise-pangolin This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Jeos based server as a spamfilter in gateway mode. In the end, you will have a SpamSnake Gateway which will relay clean emails to your MTA. You will also be able to view your incoming queue, train your SpamSnake and carry out a few more advanced operations via Baruwa. falko Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:40:00 GMT