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Topic: reduce the spam

is there any other ways to reduce the spam emails except the following:

enabled greylisting

changed the SPAM score in /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf

from default:

$sa_tag_level_deflt  = 2.0;  # add spam info headers if at, or above that level
$sa_tag2_level_deflt = 6.2;  # add 'spam detected' headers at that level     
$sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.9;  # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail)

to:

$sa_tag_level_deflt  = 2.0;  # add spam info headers if at, or above that level
$sa_tag2_level_deflt = 2.8;  # add 'spam detected' headers at that level     
$sa_kill_level_deflt = 2.8;  # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail)

still getting around 10 emails in one day ...

Thank You

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Re: reduce the spam

OviVan wrote:

is there any other ways to reduce the spam emails except the following:

enabled greylisting

changed the SPAM score in /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf

from default:

$sa_tag_level_deflt  = 2.0;  # add spam info headers if at, or above that level
$sa_tag2_level_deflt = 6.2;  # add 'spam detected' headers at that level     
$sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.9;  # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail)

to:

$sa_tag_level_deflt  = 2.0;  # add spam info headers if at, or above that level
$sa_tag2_level_deflt = 2.8;  # add 'spam detected' headers at that level     
$sa_kill_level_deflt = 2.8;  # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail)

still getting around 10 emails in one day ...

Thank You

Hi,

instead of lowering too much the spam score, which is very dangerous as it can easily lead to false positive, you should take in consideration to enable some RBL and Pyzor, Razor and DCC.
I've made a tutorial in this forum to enable DCC and there is another one for Pyzor and Razor...

But I would definetely not go lower than 4.8-5.0 for the spam scoring...

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Re: reduce the spam

Hi pal,

thank You for reply.
I have now reconfigured it at 4.8

Could You please send me the link in this post or ? I need step by step how to configure it..
I am being really tired of the SPAM and I will get rid of it..