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We’ve been discussing observed rates of attempted spam, not the effectiveness of downstream filters.
by aendruk 3y ago
We’ve been discussing observed rates of attempted spam, not the effectiveness of downstream filters.
- listenallyall 3y ago> not the effectiveness of downstream filters. But he chose to mention that all spam were marked as such and that only 1 or 2 get through. Readers will naturally be curious what methodology and tools are in use.
- aendruk 3y ago“Difficult to extract any useful info from this post” reads as undue criticism, as if preemptive satisfaction of your curiosity about the tangent was compulsory.
- listenallyall 3y agoI disagree that the criticism is "undue"... a post that waves off spam as if it's a non-issue ("2-3 each month"), when in fact many people do struggle with it, helps nobody. A post actually explaining how you built or configured an effective spam filter, however, benefits the HN community.
- pixl97 3y agoIs that pre or post IP filter attempted spam? Or what I'm saying is, if the SMTP server blocks by IP first before determining what mail is being delivered then the actual rate of potential spam to any particular email address is not being discovered.
- aendruk 3y agoFor my case above we have a decent explanation of the “SMTP stage” policy [1] but no visibility into its actual metrics. [1]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591393 https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591393