Filtering or blocking spam

Started by amd.64, August 23, 2024, 05:39:40 AM

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I have followed the guide below to create a firewall rule to block spam using spamhaus. Are there additional services or sites like spamhaus that I can use in a similar way. I want to maximize spam blocking as much as I can.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/edrop.html

Thank You

Adguard or Pi-Hole are common spam blockers

There is no pihole for opnsense.

If you use unbound as your dns you can set up blocklists directly: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/unbound.html#blocklists

Or if you want to use adguard home, it's available from mimugmail 's community repo.
There is also a whole thread about it https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=22162.0

August 23, 2024, 12:40:53 PM #3 Last Edit: August 23, 2024, 12:51:34 PM by doktornotor
Spam is a whole lot better dealt with on the mailserver itself, or a spam filtering box in front of the real mailserver. Perhaps look at os-rspamd.

DNSBL can be part of some spam scoring, should rarely be used for outright rejection of mail exept for very small amount of well-known offenders. On that note, many of the Spamhaus blocklists are well known for collateral listing and problematic policies / politics.