Date:  Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:42:11 -0500
From:  Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick (at mark) zill.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:08040] Re: OT: Spamcop BL - good or dangerous?
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Robert Howard wrote:

> Out of curiosity, has anyone tried using a whitelist/blacklist filter 
> like TMDA?  I have been told that the "BoxTrapper" whitelist program 
> built into cPanel has a lot of overhead and causes server problems.  
> Is that also true with something like TMDA on BQ?  I definitely like 
> having a whitelist, so I'm open to any options that work well with 
> BlueQuartz.

I have found, for my clients, that greylisting works extremely well and 
stops about 90% of the spam we were getting, dead in its tracks.  you 
do need to add in Google, Yahoo, Ebay and Amazon netblocks however.

It also follows the nice principle that if someone legitimate does in 
fact have a problem, they get a bounce and then can know that the email 
was not delivered.

Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick (at mark) zill.net