On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:03:34AM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail > relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent > them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can > find more info about it...
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. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / linux: Unbekannter Terminaltyp / / Ich weiß nicht, auf was für einem Terminaltyp Sie arbeiten - / / alles, was ich habe, ist 'linux'. -- Solaris 2.5 /
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