{"id":319,"date":"2004-09-09T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T08:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2004-09-09T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T08:24:56","slug":"greylisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/09\/greylisting","title":{"rendered":"Greylisting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after downloading another yet another 25MB of mail to delete, I finally decided it was time to update my server-side spam handling. Boring nonsense. <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.puremagic.com\/greylisting\/\">Greylisting<\/a> seems to be a decent next stage in the escalation, though unfortunately it requires upgrading to exim4 and dealing with backports and the weird &#8220;Debian-exim&#8221; user and complicated packaging. Oh well, at least all the nifty acl features should be fun to play with.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the various <code>debian.org<\/code> addresses that eventually make it to my MUA are still horrible spamtraps. Hopefully just dropping mail to <code>ajt@<i>randomhost<\/i>.debian.org<\/code> will be a good first step.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2004\/09\/10:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yowza. In about twelve hours, greylisting and shunting debian.org mail aside managed to drop my spam count to about five; only one of which made it to my inbox. As opposed to a couple of hundred. <b>Awesome<\/b> &#8212; email&#8217;s actually useful again. I think debian.org&#8217;s mostly to blame unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after downloading another yet another 25MB of mail to delete, I finally decided it was time to update my server-side spam handling. Boring nonsense. Greylisting seems to be a decent next stage in the escalation, though unfortunately it requires upgrading to exim4 and dealing with backports and the weird &#8220;Debian-exim&#8221; user and complicated packaging. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}