I'm very excited about OS X Tiger bec of my massive spam problem! What does Mac OS X Tiger offer that will help reduce the two-step spam dance?

Postfix. SpamAssassin. Improved Junk Mail filtering on Mail. And proper knowledge of what’s happening with the spam industry these days.

First, at the server level, Postfix offers a number of filtering mechanisms which, once implemented, reduce spam email by an order of magnitude. That means that each user who previously sorted through 100 spam messages a day, now receives only 10, or less.

Postfix allows a Mac server to check DNS “black lists” and prohibit incoming messages if they don’t pass the “black list” test. Once set up, the checking is automatic.

Part of the configuration included checking the incoming messages origin, header information, and other “gotchas.” Again, if the message failed a test, it was refused. The “bad” spam would never make it to an inbox.

Is it possible to block legitimate incoming email? Yes, though it seldom happens.
 

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