In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [..] 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .