I do the following: * don't accept mail for non-existing recipient adresses * don't accept mail where the sender domain is one of my domains, except when whit

I do the following: * don't accept mail for non-existing recipient adresses * don't accept mail where the sender domain is one of my domains, except when whitelisted manually * don't accept mail from hosts on the NiXSpam list[1] (unlike some others, NixSpam has pretty reasonable policies with automatic delisting after 12 hours) These three rules together work pretty well, I get only a handful false negatives every day, and virtually no false positives, even though I publish my real mail address on many places in the web, and even used it in usenet, back in the days. Next step would be using SpamAssassin, but [2]. [1] http://www.heise.de/ix/NiX-Spam-DNSBL-and-blacklist-for-download-499637.html http://www.heise.de/ix/NiX-Spam-DNSBL-and-blacklist-for-down... [2] http://xkcd.com/1205/ http://xkcd.com/1205/