Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

[Butch Kemper <kemper@bihs.net>]

At 12:21 -0500 on 6/21/97, Vebj¯rn Forsmo wrote:


> John Foster <johnf@mars.nettrek.net.au> writes:

  <snip>

> > If so, how do I stop it?
>
> There is a set of patches for Sendmail that allow it to do this,
> you can use BlackMail as a spam-filter, or install qmail
> (http://www.qmail.org/) which has a reasonable amount of
> configurability fo stopping spam, and also several patches that
> further improves this ability. (Checking if the envelope-from address
> is valid through DNS or simply blocking an ip-range.)

Point your browser to www.sendmail.org and there you will find pointers to
several good configuration changes to sendmail that will allow you to
control who uses your server to relay mail.

Butch

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