If you don't want spam in your inbox, use your choice of SMTP blacklists (AKA "RBLs" and "RHSBLs") and a good filter -- I use DSPAM for those who get past my long list of 17 SMTP blacklists. I see one or two spam messages per month in my inbox, and my total cost was my time in configuration.

If I didn't run my own server, I'd still use those blacklists, but via a homegrown bit of perl, then pipe the remaining messages into DSPAM. I recently set my dear old mom up like this, and it seems to work just fine.

Nuthin' to it but to do it, and the price is right.

In reply to Re^3: Just Another Discussion of Spam by gloryhack
in thread Just Another Discussion of Spam by CloneArmyCommander

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