Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:56:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Modtager spam pga BSD-DK! From: Jesper Rønnekilde <none@jesper--ronnekilde.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk
> On 4/24/06, Allan Wermuth <none@alw--it-service.sdu.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding all Your mail to the Gmail account, and then fetching them
>> back again, using
>> POP/SSL, doesn't actually reduce the amount of traffic in your domain.
>
> Indeed it can. MX records can use bandwidth of a different network
> entirely compared to websites, as it is in my example.
>
> But my solution is mainly to reduce inbound spam which has to be
> manually processed. I'm not that low on bandwidth.
>
> Of course POP3 over SSL is more bandwidth intensive compared to POP3,
> but now I'm more safe as well, since my mailbox provider only supports
> unencrypted POP3 and nothing else. Using GMail over SSL is for me a
> much better solution.
>
> I even filter that mail through SpamAssassin and ClamAV when it gets
> home to me, and after that filtering there's only a tiny fragment of
> spam getting through. Convenient.
Accept that you can't fight spam at your MTA! Set up filtering at your MUA
;-)
/jesper
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