New Anti-Spam Approach

I’m trying out some new techniques for filtering spam. Relaying through Gmail is fairly effective, but it deeply offends my sense of simplicity to use two (2) Linux accounts and bounce through Google in order to get a message.

The technique I am trying now is FAR simpler and shows much promise. It’s working for a lot of other people so I’m optimistic. We’ll see how it goes. This post will serve as the implementation marker.

Summary of Techniques

1. Greylisting
2. Quality Checks
3. ** Relay through Gmail.
4. Spamassassin

Oh, and if you are trying to send me mail and not seeming to get through after these changes, do let me know. This solution may take some tweaking.

[Edit: 11.23.06] Results have been sub-optimal. Within a few hours Gmail had already caught a couple of emails that were not stopped by the initial reject technique. So I’ve put Gmail back in the loop and now things seem to be working great. Let me know if any of you are having trouble sending me mail.