{"id":119,"date":"2006-04-03T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2006-04-03T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T04:26:11","slug":"greylisting-is-dabomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Greylisting is da&#8217;bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image118\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/20031130-spam.jpg?w=450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"no spam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I finally got around to installing <b><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.perl.org\/perl5\/news\/\" target=perl>Perl 5.8.8<\/a><\/b> with threading so I can install greylisting. Once I figured out the bug in the mysql.pm modules I was on my way. I knew it would be useful to install greylisting, but I didn&#8217;t realize <b>HOW<\/b> good it would be.<\/p>\n<p>Before <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greylisting.org\/\" target=spam>greylisting<\/a><\/b>, I was getting about 1200 messages a day that were spam, about 900 of them filtered out by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/spamassassin.apache.org\/\" target=spam>spamassassin<\/a><\/b>. That would still lead to about 300 messages a day that would end up in my inbox.<\/p>\n<p>After <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greylisting.org\/\" tgarget=spam>greylisting<\/a><\/b>, I am now getting about 15 emails a day that are spam. about 99.99% of them are caught by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/spamassassin.apache.org\/\" target=spam>spamassassin<\/a><\/b> now. About one a week makes it through.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to do with all the free time I have now that I have no mail to read through \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I finally got around to installing Perl 5.8.8 with threading so I can install greylisting. Once I figured out the bug in the mysql.pm modules I was on my way. I knew it would be useful to install greylisting, but I didn&#8217;t realize HOW good it would be. Before greylisting, I was getting about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muggle-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}