20 Sep
2017
20 Sep
'17
10:59 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
I tried running my own server on mcvoy.com but
eventually gave up, the
spam filtering was a non-ending task.
I still run qmail, using a patch to pass everything through
SpamAssassin. Remote IMAP is provided by courier-imap. This setup has
been in place long enough that I can no longer remember originally
configuring it.
I experimented with moving to OpenSMTPD, but at the time it wasn't
flexible enough to manage spam filtering in a sane way. I've read
matters have improved, and based on current descriptions it might be
worth revisiting.
Another relative newcomer is rspamd, which can take a lot of the pain
out of spam filtering. Getting it integrated with my creaky old qmail
setup has been on my TODO for quite a while now.
If someone has a plug and chug setup for MX I'd
love to try it.
Sadly, while my setup has been rock-solid and I have no complaints,
there's nothing plug and chug about it. The ability to quickly deploy a
new server is one of the things that originally got me looking at
OpenSMTPD, but filtering and user-controlled address creation a la
.qmail-files were showstoppers for me.
khm