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My ISP just took me off their spam filtering because last week we received 240,000 spam mails in one day. We are averaging about 35k. 99.9% to bogus addresses that bounce. My box is now having to bounce all these itself.
Anyone have a recommended external service to handle spam filtering? A google search came up with a lot of results, but id like to use someone trusted.
Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated as well... this is nuts.
Thanks,
Will
We are averaging about 35k. 99.9% to bogus addresses that bounce. My box is now having to bounce all these itself. Anyone have a recommended external service to handle spam filtering?
Since these mal-addressed messages are junk/spam, it's not like there's anybody on the other end "listening" for "invalid address" messages: Most, if not all, of addresses in the "From:" fields of these message are faked.
Instead of adding to the spam-generated problem, just nuke to the stuff by setting your "default" address to ":blackhole:".
(Oddly, the ":fail:" setting actually generates bounces, not failures.)
You ask about an external mail service. I don't think we're allowed to make specific recommendations on the forums, but if you sticky-mail me, I can tell you who I'm using.
I had to go with an outside service when my incoming mail volume got too big for my host to handle. Granted, my top volume (while undergoing a persistent dictionary attack) was only about 150K messages a day, but the third-party service I'm using indicated that this volume was well within their capabilities. And the service allows the client to customize the spam filtering very specifically, so you should be able to come up with some configuration that suits your needs.
Eliz.
As for me, I installed SpamAssassin on my server...
That thing ROCKS!
it's free, no 3rd parties to worry about, no fees ever.
