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I've enabled the greylisting, and it's working great. The spam level is perhaps 20% of what it used to be. That's still a lot, but at least the legitimate mail (including mailing list traffic) outnumbers spam now for the first time in years. It's also less likely that I would misreport a legitimate message as spam, as most spam that comes through is either in Asian languages or has unambiguous subject lines (all capitals, Viagra and all such stuff). The greylisting block most "newsletters" I never subscribed to from companies I had business with. Those often use benign or attention-grabbing subject lines. How ironic is that the messages purporting to be legitimate are sent in the spam-like fashion and never retried! I'm glad they trust the delivery of their wares to the real companies, that don't give up after the first attempt One thing I'm feeling a bit uneasy about is that if I were still receiving those "newsletters", perhaps I would refrain from dealing with the companies sending them. But on the other hand, it would be great if I ignored all companies who leaked my address, and I cannot identify them, because I'm using my Spamcop address directly, without sneakemail. And if I had a TV, maybe I would not buy something advertised too aggressively. It's just not practical that I expose myself to extra advertising so that I can make better choices. When I first subscribed to the Spamcop webmail system, I decided to use my spamcop address for most of my business needs, hoping that smart spammers won't spam Spamcop addresses, and dumb spammers would be caught or neutralized in some way. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The spam quickly dwarfed the legitimate e-mail, even though I was reporting all the spam coming to me. I think lessons should be learned from that. Reporting alone doesn't harm spammers enough. They spam Spamcop accounts directly with no fear, month after month. Something else needs to be done. Spammers and those who pay for their services should be prosecuted. It may not be the core mission of Spamcop, but if nobody is doing it, we shouldn't be thinking that every our spam report increases our karma and makes the world a better place. I can understand Spamcop users who want to limit the amount of spam they get. We all have to choose our battles. I would rather limit what I receive and report only the spam that comes through despite all automatic measures. For me, spammers are like mosquitoes. You don't go to the woods to fight mosquitoes, you fight those in your house.

Thanks for SMTP! It's working fine. I sent a mail to myself, and it came back fast. If anyone is using Evolution, the way to specify port 587 is to add it after the colon in the Server line: smtp.cesmail.net:587 Just one nitpick. This is one of the lines from the headers: Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 13 Sep 2006 16:23:29 -0400 What's exactly "unknown" here? Shouldn't spamcop systems know each other?