Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, I return an error message rather than simply delaying the
connection until it times out because under the Electronic Communications
and Privacy Act it is unlawful to intercept electronic mail without an
indication to the sender.
From: Carey
This kind of information would look good on our web site.
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, I return an error message rather than simply delaying the
connection until it times out because under the Electronic Communications
and
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
: that's one of the reasons i prefer packet filtering to
: tcp-wrappers. block it out in the kernel before it gets to the
: application level.
Hmm.. I don't agree with you on your last sentence.
Blocking mail is something that, imho, the MTA should do. That is, the
MTA handles 'mail', like the kernel handles 'packets'. And the spam is
in the 'mail', not in the 'packets'. Do you understand what I mean?
Unfortunately, there is no known textual mechanism that can reliably
reject spam.
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, I return an error message rather than simply delaying the
connection until it times out because under the Electronic Communications
and Privacy Act it is unlawful to intercept electronic mail without an
indication to the sender.
How would
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
I'm building a spam blocking package for Debian. While that is going on,
i notice that the latest sendmail package includes Claus Aßmann's
anti-spam stuff. I've been using them for several months now, and
they're quite good. not perfect, but they do
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David Sewell wrote:
: I think a Debian spam-blocking package, using TCPD and generalized
: to cover all MTAs, would be a good thing, with a couple of caveats.
That's quite difficult to implement.
One of the most
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
: that's one of the reasons i prefer packet filtering to tcp-wrappers.
: block it out in the kernel before it gets to the application level.
Hmm.. I don't agree with you on your last sentence. Why should the kernel
take care of something which has
On Mon, Aug 11, 1997 at 11:49:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
My final version will not simply deny the connections, but will output
an SMTP error to them which will cause an immediate mail bounce at their
end.
I've been using the tcpd banners option, with lines in /etc/hosts.deny
that
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David Sewell wrote:
: I think a Debian spam-blocking package, using TCPD and generalized to
: cover all MTAs, would be a good thing, with a couple of caveats.
That's quite difficult to implement.
One of the most important reasons: not all MTA are using
I'm building a spam blocking package for Debian. While that is going on,
some of you might find this useful. Look for the SMTP daemon in
your /etc/inetd.conf . If it's being started through tcpd, you'll see
an invocation of tcpd in the file on the same line just before the
invocation of the SMTP
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