[SDBUG] OpenBSD's "spamd" usable on FreeBSD?

[Bill Gerrard]

On 1/26/07, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster at video2video.com> wrote:
> Has anyone used "spamd" on FreeBSD?  I'm trying to get my ISP to use it.
>
> If I understand it correctly, it is a sendmail clone, but with one major
> difference (improvement?) -- incoming messages are told, "Hollld on a sec,
> let me see if I can deliver your message, please wait 3-5 minutes then try
> back."  And if the incoming message is a spammer, then THEIR side of the
> sending gives up and does not legitimately retry.

I don't know anything about "spamd", but what you are referring to is
called greylisting.

See http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html for a
general overview of greylisting.

We use a sendmail milter, named milter-greylist which is available here:
http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/