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by kijiki 540 days ago
I'm on Debian stable, not OpenBSD, but SpamAssassin + razor + pyzor works really well. Roughly 1 spam per month, and 1-2 false positives a year. This is for an email address that has been used and openly spread widely for 25+ years.

The real work is making sure that outbound mail gets delivered, but even that is just making sure you have a clean IP and setting up reverse DNS + DMARC/SPF/DKIM...
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jamal-kumar 540 days ago
Nice never heard of those until now. Link for anyone here cause it's kinda hard to google razor email filter for some reason. What does that setup have over amavisd?

https://notes.sagredo.eu/en/qmail-notes-185/razor2-pyzor-spa...

I investigated further and these don't really seem to be incredibly active projects, you sure this is the best solution?

https://github.com/toddr/Razor2-Client-Agent

https://github.com/SpamExperts/pyzor/tree/release-1-0-0

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kijiki 540 days ago
> you sure this is the best solution?

No, but I've been using it without issues for close to 25 years.

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jamal-kumar 539 days ago
Love hearing when old code does just fine after that much years to be honest. Very impressive
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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 540 days ago
To send an outbound email today you must have a special skill set and years of carefully built reputation. I just outsource it to smtp2go.
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ninjin 540 days ago
I understand and respect this opinion, but it is clearly not true that you need "years of carefully built reputation" as per my own write up in this thread and plenty of others here and elsewhere. Still, I do respect and understand that e-mail is a particularly nasty hole to dive into with potentially serious consequences so I do not look down on those that bow out and go for alternative solutions.
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