Jack wrote:
Also, since you bring up the subject. I've been having issues with my mail server (self-inflicted). I'm looking to boost the spam destruction capabilities of my mail server. Seeing as how I recently discovered I'm getting slammed with 5000+ emails a day, 95% of which are thrown away at SMTP time. My server and client combination currently blocks about 98% of the spam. I'd like to bump that number up to 99.999% (hey it's a journey not a destination). I'm looking at greylisting, and also I added sa-exim to my system, but screwed up placement/context of the configuration lines and created a loop. So I've had to sdsiable my new feature which was working quite well, by blocking 100% of the spam and let through all except 1 of the emails that should have gone through. The one caused a loop in the system. So my question is does anyone use greylisting with debian and exim? I've found one sample configuration which I'm studying. But it's a bit overkill for my needs.
I don't know exim very well, and instead have always preferred postfix. There is very useful greylisting+postfix information at http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/