[Mimedefang] Replacing SpamAssassin with DSPAM

[Andrew S. Johnson]

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:54 pm, Cormack, Ken wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> ::snip::
> 
> > Basically, I'm trying to avoid drastic changes to my mail system, since
> > it generally works OK.  So, the farther the changes get from sendmail,
> > theoretically changes should inflict less damage.
> 
> Andy, have you considered (or do you currently use) greylisting, via
> MIMEDefang?  That, more than any other single sendmail ruleset, access.db
> block, or MIMEDefang rule that we use, has taken the biggest chunk out of
> the spams we used to deal with.  Just a thought.

> KEN CORMACK, RHCE

The greylisting milter I found needs MySQL, which I don't have the resources
for on my current server (K6-300 w/128MB RAM).  This is just to keep the spam
out of my family's inboxes.  Do you know of a lighter weight version that uses
the Berkeley DB or something similar?  Also, I'd have to get my friend who is
acting as my backup MX to do the same thing, and I don't know how motivated
he would be to try that.  It would have to be fairly simple to install and configure.
My server running Slackware 8.1, but unless he has upgraded and didn't tell
me, I think his server is still running RedHat 6.2.  Thus the reason for thinking
that I need to filter out the spam at my MTA.

Andy Johnson