18 Apr
2006
18 Apr
'06
7:57 p.m.
I'm basically trying to use every trick out there. Here's a detailed explation of everything I'm doing:
http://www.junkemailfilter.com/spam/how_it_works.html
Mostly I'm using Exim rules and Spamassassin. Exim allws me to do whost all the front end tricks like sender verification and blacklist lookup and I'm eliminating 90% of spam before I even get to spamassassin. Then I use Exim again to do the fancy routing that many people use Sieve for.
I'm processing about 1.2 million email attempts per day and passing 50,000 good messages on. And most all of it with a single computer that's a Dual Core Athlon 3800 with 4 gigs of ram.
But I'm always looking for new tricks.