AUSWEB BLOG

The Quality Assurance team of cPanel discovered a bug within the SpamAssassin ruleset that will mark messages sent in the year 2010 (that’s today) and beyond with a higher spam score than expected.     This bug can result in legitimate mail being flagged as spam.
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Email, Operating Systems, Plugins, Scripting & Coding, Software, Spam, Spam Protection, cPanel

What is Greylisting?

Greylisting is a new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level, but without resorting to heavyweight statistical analysis or other heuristical (and error-prone) approaches. Consequently, implementations are fairly lightweight, and may even decrease network traffic and processor load on your mailserver.

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Email, Security, Spam Protection greylisting, mailserver, Spam Protection, spamassassin, spamdyke