Re: which anti-spam tool? - error message
hi paul ( again )
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > donate to any of the rbls that is used ... or any other open development
> > cause
>
> Of course. Though do so directly.
yup... always give to the end user of the funds..
( http://www.debian.org/donations in the case of debian ??
( buy tshirts and stuff from them )
> > > > - stop spam at the mta ( sendmail, exim, postfix, etc )
> > > > - i want the spam to bounce back to the spammer and
> > > > clutter their logs w/ bounced messages and their own spam
> > >
> > > bl.spamcop.net is a good RBL for that.
>
> > and if bl.spamcop.net sends bounes back to the spammer ... good,
> > we should all bounce spams ... ( as opposed to quietly dropping it )
> > - let them fill up their logs with their own spam
>
> Exactly. I'd love to know how to make exim give the correct SMTP
> error for RBLs according to RFC 1893 (it would be 571, btw), the
> desired response would be something like
since most spammers use open relays .... those open relays are hopefully
getting all my bounce emails ... and if the spammer used their legit
email addy, than i know they are getting the bounces
- if i send an email that bounces, i get all kinds of stuff
including the original email sent
> 571 F*ck off, spammer! (Or email postmaster at your ISP with this message)
>
> And then give the standard RBL text that tells them to hit that RBL's
> site to see why they were blocked.
think the error mesg for any of um can be changed... at least i do so in
sendmail
i only see that an incoming spam was logged from who and which
domain/relays and nothing in my mailboxes
c ya
alvin
-- standard error/reject messages
- no reverse dns
- bad/mailformed message header
- rbl checks...
... blah .. blah ...
more rules i check before checking subjects
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/antispam.gwif.html
subject based (check_local) anti-spam filter i use with sendmail
( 5 minutes to setup sendmail
( 5 years ?? to make your messages :-) well 5 hrs ...
( and wait dayz for some spammer to trip up on that errr message
-- i use errror message 553 for these
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-- if they send me prescription spam...
- they are notified that they need a MDs license
-- if they send me credit repair scheme...
- they are required in california to have a PPB license
-- if they send me get rich quick scheme...
- they are told that the mail has been forwarded
to fbi, ftc, etc
-- if they send me spam about mortgages rates ...
- they are required to have a real estate license
-- if they send me spam about insurance..
- they are required to have an insurance license
-- if they send me spam about stocks...
- they are required to have an SEC license
-- you get the idea ..
-- all "licensed activity" violations are great....
- the spammer is in a heap of trouble for practicing
without a license
-- i seem to get less of of these spam nowdayz (in the log entries) :-)
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