[vexim] Time to ditch SA/DSPAM?

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 08:52:42 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Avleen Vig
<lists-vexim at silverwraith.com> wrote:
> For a few months now, I've been using a product called TrafficControl
> from MailChannels. I know the guys who wrote it and they're a pretty
> solid bunch.
>
> It works so well for me, that SA and DSPAM catch less than one spam a
> day per account now. As a result, I've turned them off here.
>
> I thought you guys might want to know about this too :)
> http://www.mailchannels.com/
>
> Before release they were going to charge or the product, but it's now
> free for non-commercial users, and free for any use if you get less than
> 10k connections a day.
>
> Let me know if you try it and what you think of it.
>
> TC is an invisible proxy. It listens on port 25 and silently forwards
> the connection on to your MTA, doing checks on the traffic in the
> process.
>
> One interesting thing I found, was that after I changed my DNS to point
> my MX to a new IP that I gave TC, I still got LOTS of connections (100's
> per day) to my old IP. All spammers who cached my DNS.
>
> If you try it, let me know what you think.
>

Hello Avleen,

Long time no hear! Hope you are well. Nice to hear from you again.

Does it run only on Linux, as the name suggests?


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