Re: Debian and spam
On (12/11/04 10:48), John Hannibal Smith wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address
> (jsmith@cistst.com) be sold or distributed?
>
> Just curious! Thanks!
No it won't be sold or distributed but spammers harvest mailing list
archives and news groups for email addresses and now that you've posted
to the list, your address is "out there".
The good news is that there are many ways of dealing with spam using
Debian, even so far as blocking it at smtp time and so most of it never
reaches your machine. Below are a range of packages that deal with
spam:
amavis-stats - Virus statistics RRDtool frontend for Amavis
amavisd-new - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters
amavisd-new-milter - Interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new
bld - Black List Daemon, automatically build blacklists
bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter
bsfilter - Bayesian spam filter
crm114 - The Controllable Regex Mutilator and Spam Filter
dcc-client - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - client programs
dcc-common - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - common files
dcc-milter - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - sendmail milter plugin
dcc-server - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - server programs
drac - Dynamic Relay Authorization Control (pop-before-smtp)
drac-dev - Dynamic Relay Authorization Control (development files)
exim - An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
exim4-base - EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a Mail Transport Agent
exim4-daemon-heavy - Exim (v4) with extended features, including
exiscan-acl
gnus-bonus-el - Miscellaneous add-ons for Gnus
gotmail - Utility to download email from a Hotmail or MSN account
graphdefang - create graphs of your mimedefang spam and virus logs
greylistd - Simple greylisting daemon for use with Exim & other MTAs
hashcash - postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations
hinfo - Check address ownership and DNSBL listings for spam reporting
ifile - a text/e-mail/spam filter capable of learning
ifile-gnus-el - a news and mail classifier for the Gnus newsreader
ilohamail - Light weight yet full featured multilingual web-based
IMAP/POP3 client
ircd-hybrid - High-performance secure IRC server
lg-issue62 - Issue 62 of the Linux Gazette.
lg-issue66 - Issue 66 of the Linux Gazette.
lg-issue67 - Issue 67 of the Linux Gazette.
lg-issue86 - Issue 86 of the Linux Gazette.
libmail-bulkmail-perl - Platform independent mailing list module
libnet-smtp-server-perl - A native Perl SMTP Server implementation
libroxen-cloakingdevice - Mailto mutilation module for the Roxen
Challenger web server
libroxen-mailcloak - Mail cloak module for the Roxen Challenger web
server
libspf2-0 - Sender Policy Framework library, written in C
libspf2-dev - Header and development libraries for libspf2
libsrs2-0 - SRS email address rewriting engine
libsrs2-dev - Development tools for the libsrs2
licq-plugin-jonsgtk - graphical user interface plug-in for Licq using
GTK+
listadmin - command line mailman moderator queue manipulation
mailfilter - A program that filters your incoming e-mail to help remove
spam
mailman - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager
mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger
messagewall - An SMTP proxy daemon, designed to help keep out unwanted
email
mh-e - Emacs interface to the MH mail system
opensp - OpenJade group's SGML parsing tools
p3scan - transparent POP3-proxy with virus- and spam-scanning
pimppa - powerful tool to loot binaries from newsgroups smartly
pop-before-smtp - watch log for POP/IMAP auth, notify MTA to allow relay
pop3browser - Allows to check a pop3 mailbox before downloading any mail
popfile - email classification tool
postgrey - Greylisting implementation for Postfix
proxycheck - checks existence of open proxy
python2.3-spambayes - Python-based spam filter using statistical
analysis (2.3.x)
pyzor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network
razor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network
sa-exim - Use spamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA
sauce - SMTP defence software against spam
sendmail - A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent
sendmail-bin - A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent
sim - Simple Instant Messenger
smtp-refuser - Simple spam-block with refusal message
smtpd - Mail proxy for firewalls with anti-spam and anti-relay features
sp - James Clark's SGML parsing tools
spamass-milter - sendmail milter for filtering mail through spamassassin
spamassassin - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
spambayes - Python-based spam filter using statistical analysis
spamc - Client for SpamAssassin spam filtering daemon
spamoracle - A statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula
spamoracle-byte - A statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes'
formula
spampd - a spamassassin based SMTP/LMTP proxy daemon
spamprobe - a C++ Bayesian spam filter
sugarplum - an automated and intelligent spam trap/cache-poisoner
sylpheed-claws-spamassassin - SpamAssassin plugin for Sylpheed Claws
tmda - Tagged Message Delivery Agent
usermin-spamassassin - Spamassassin module for the usermin web-based
administration tool
webmin-spamassassin - spamassassin control module for webmin
xmail - Advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server
xmail-doc - Documentation for xmail
ucspi-tcp-src - Source only package for building ucspi-tcp binary
package
Regards
Clive
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