Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 07:50:01AM +1000, John Foster wrote:
> This post is probably a bit off topic, but maybe one of you can give
> me a pointer in the right direction.
>
> I'm looking after the servers of an ISP, and someone is using us for
> bulk mailouts.
>
> I get a lot of mail in postmasters mailbox about it. I can't seem to
> find how it's getting in though!
You might want to consider installing Blackmail, which is an antispam
filter; I don't remember the exact address, but Altavista should
turn it up. Or see spam.org.
It will kill any connection it thinks is spam, either from a list
of spam sites you specify, or any traffic which both originates
and terminates not on your machine or a specified list of machines.
Stops people spamming you. You have to be careful with its configuration
though; I run it on my company's internet server, located at our ISP;
I specified that all of our domain can send mail via the server,
but as dialup users we appeared in the ISP's domain, so it
wouldn't forward our mail (using Netscape Mail or whatever)
until I fixed my configuration.
> I'm using smail from the 1.3 distribution. Perhaps I should be using
> another mail-daeomn. Or is there a way that I can restrict things in
> smail? The documentation for smail is (or was anyway) pretty woeful!
Blackmail likes smail.
hamish
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