email sanity returns

Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 07:26AM

By Eric Richardson

I finally got around to reinstalling qpsmtpd yesterday. In and of itself that doesn't do a lot for me, but what revolutionizes my email is greylisting. The first time around the installation process I talked about how it worked, so I won't re-explain that here.

What I will say, though, is that in the day before installing greylisting I got at least 700 spam emails. In the 18 hours or so since: maybe a dozen. Most of those were then caught by spamassassin.

Ah, sanity has once again returned to my email.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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