SpamD Package Needs Testers
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Hi! I would like to test spamD, on one of my pfsense installation, but i need some guide on setting it up. I've read the man page on openbsd site just to have a clue, but a quick howto would speed things up.
The idea is to let my pfsense box be a gateway for our internal exchange server, that is being flooded with spam right now :-.
Thanks.
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The package is really for testing right now, I wouldn't recommend putting it in production unless you 1) know what you're doing or 2) can tolerate potential lost email.
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Ok. You would not implement it at this point! :-[ Anyway i can help to accellerate the testing process? I was testing it with vmware.
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Installed at 8:15am Thursday 8/5/2008.
So far, no bugs or issues - working perfectly. Spam hitting the server has dropped dramatically.
From start of April to time of installation - 10864
Since installation to 10:00am 15/5/2008 - 19398.15% drop (and growing) in Spam hitting the mail server.
Will be testing pfSense including SpamD under VMWare in the next week.
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Hammeraus,
For those people who are wanting to test this package, would you mind telling people how you have yours configured? There are a lot of people who want to test this, but many of them don't know where to begin.
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Been using PF/Spamd for a couple years on another system with tweaking here and there…
With the pfsense package, I set the numbers low and it seems to block out the majority of spam while keeping late deliveries to a minimum.
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Is anyone currently using the spamd package in a CARP cluster? We definitely need more people pounding on this package in that type of environment.
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Whitelisting - it should be possible to create a whitelist of a range of IPs instead of having to whitelist a single IP address. For larger sites like gmail it may be desirable to whitelist all their _spf.google.com ranges. Currently, the GUI doesn't seem to support this.
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Additionally missing is support for spamd.alloweddomains which might be another way to deal with the whitelisting problem. Again, this isn't going to be the right answer for everyone, but some customers will not want to wait for over and hour for inbound email to bypass their spam filter. The ability to add domains to alloweddomains will solve this issue.
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Just got it up and going. My jiggly buttons don't seem to do much right now either (White-listing is perhaps my biggest gripe? I click the button and it shakes it's mocking little head at me and the thing stays gray listed!) I'll post up some screen shots of my configuration later tomorrow morning. So far so good, good e-mail = going through okay spam = 0 so far.
Quick questions:
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I've got my blacklist entries put in, but on the counts it says 0 in the blacklist, that's just referring to the current connections, right?
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is there a way to whitelist domains/ single e-mail addresses?
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Is everyone running a secondary Spam/AV filter after this? such as Clam+Razor+Mailwatch or similar? (we're going on 4 hours of having it turned on and I went from getting 2-5 spam ever minuet to none so far…!)
Thanks!
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Please read the rest of the thread before complaining about things not working. The button issue has been addressed in this thread, it does work, just not the way that you are expecting.
The blacklist/whitelist count is currently broken and this has been reported to the developer as well.
Finally, please do some reading to understand what spamd is and isn't. It doesn't feature a way to blacklist or whitelist by domain. That's not its intent. Blacklists and whitelists are IP addresses only. It also isn't meant to be the end-all, be-all of spam filtering. It's meant to help stem the tide of spam and cut down the most obvious stuff. It should be used in conjunction with a virus scanner on your mail server (at the very least).
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@submicron:
Please read the rest of the thread before complaining about things not working. The button issue has been addressed in this thread, it does work, just not the way that you are expecting.
The blacklist/whitelist count is currently broken and this has been reported to the developer as well.
Finally, please do some reading to understand what spamd is and isn't. It doesn't feature a way to blacklist or whitelist by domain. That's not its intent. Blacklists and whitelists are IP addresses only. It also isn't meant to be the end-all, be-all of spam filtering. It's meant to help stem the tide of spam and cut down the most obvious stuff. It should be used in conjunction with a virus scanner on your mail server (at the very least).
I did read and understand the entire thread, but since threads were aging and revision numbers weren't listed I was just making sure it hadn't been fixed and I was doing something wrong. The whitelist button does /not/ work on my install, i understand that the page doesn't reload after the buttons are clicked- it's stated several times throughout the entire thread. I also understand how and what spamd does i was simply asking for an interface to the spamd.alloweddomains file, but since i'm not part of the bounty and this isn't the thread for that, forget about it. The last question was about other peoples setups, i was simply curious if most were now running 3 boxes (PFsense | Clam/Razor | Mailserver). I thought I saw someone ask for configurations to be posted to help others out, and I figured that fell within the realm. Here are my configs:
