Re: spam mail or mail relay
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
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> thanks for everything.., short and clear explanation.
>
> Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > They're not equal.
> >
> > . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts
> > such mail. It is delivered to senders outside of the local area
> > (including MX hosting &c). Modern MTA's doesn't allow this
> > anymore. Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for
> > its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed.
> >
> > . Spam is mainly UCE (unsolicited commercial email (sp?)). That's
> > mail sent to you and a hundred of others that all didn't want
> > to receive them. Some of the known Spammers may be blocked
> > by MAPS RBL (Mail Abuse Prevention System, see http://maps.vix.com/).
> > We're doing this on our server lists.debian.org.
Also see the following debian package (hamm only, I think). You'll need
to do some configuring before it works, but it is actually quite easy:
$ dpkg -s spamdb
Package: spamdb
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
[..]
Description: Fully automated building and maintaining of a Blacklist
This package retrieves well-known blacklists from the Net and builds a
database of spam sites. The blacklist is automatically updated every week.
.
The Spam blacklist can then be used by mailers to reject spam. The package
includes scripts to convert it's database to a format usable by specific
mail transport agents.
.
This version is highly modular and extensible
.
This package will *NOT* reconfigure mailers to use the spamdb. There are
far too many possible ways of doing it that I feel it should be a local
sysadmin policy decision. Whichever way you choose to do it, spamdb can
support it.
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different
than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
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