[Greylist-users] Which greylist system for fastest & easiest installation?

[Kevin Nelson]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:10:24 -0500
Graham Toal <gtoal at gtoal.com> wrote:

> I had always planned to add greylisting at the source code level to
> my standalone transparent SMTP filter that I've been using for
> spam and virus filtering over the last year.  Unfortunately due
> to various factors I won't go into, I don't have the luxury of
> doing an R&D project over a suitable period of time to do this
> the way I wanted -  I need to get something in place relatively
> quickly, and it will probably go into a production environment
> within days of being tested :-(
> 
> So, two questions: do any commercial spam filters offer
> greylisting as well? (eg Brightmail, that kind of appliance)
> 
> and assuming the answer is no, what is the best way to bring up
> a reliable greylist that won't require lots of manual tweaking
> and will 'just work' reliably (and reasonably unattended)?

Run OpenBSD's spamd in greylisting mode.  FTP install should take no
more than 15 minutes, add spamd to /etc/rc.conf.local, reboot and
configure $MTA.  Or just use the OpenBSD box as a bridge/NAT and leave
your current MTA alone.  Adding blacklists to spamd is trivial (just
enable them in the spamd.conf) if you want that later on.

> 
> I have complete control over the environment, and can bring up
> any flavor of linux that may make this easier... (although for
> testing purposes running in a UML under FC3 would sure be nice)
> 
> I'm not trolling and I don't want to start a "my greylist is 
> better than your greylist" war, but I do need a good solid 
> workable suggestion quickly please.  if you prefer to email me
> directly, that's fine.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Graham <gtoal at gtoal.com>