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Re: Blocking Spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whalin)
Thu Mar 13 13:00:53 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:20:31 -0600 (CST)
From: Greg Whalin <gwhalin@numerix.com>
To: Bertrum Carroll <bc17684@90.deere.com>
cc: WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu, Firewalls@GreatCircle.COM
In-Reply-To: <33280D43.6205@90.deere.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Yep ... Sendmail 8.xx can do this. And as far as I know, it should
satisfy all of your other requirements as well (well except for the NT
part). I have ours set so that i just add a domain or a specific user and
they get bounced. And, the beauty is that you can bounce with a specified
error level so you can fool their mail sender (whatever it may be) to keep
trying which bogs down their server and bandwidth and really adds very
little overhead to yours.
Greg
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Greg Whalin
gwhalin@numerix.com
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Bertrum Carroll wrote:
> Not that we are Anti - Free Speech but! We have a need to bounce back
> or block mail from know "Pam", "Do you want to buy our porn", "Buy our
> worthless product" email sites.
>
> Does anyone know of a commercial product to do such? It must meet the
> following:
> 1. Run Really FAST!
> 2. Not use the fire wall.
> 3. Be able to filter all email from a single server.
> 4. Log what requests were not forwarded.
> 5. Run Really fast!
> 6. Run on UNIX (you pick the flavor)
> 7. If it runs on NT that's nice too.
> 8. Handle a large volume of email.
> 9. Run really fast.
> 10. A GUI interface would be nice but not a must have.
> 11. Allow us the ability to add new domains / addresses we don't want
> to get mail from.
>
> Lets not start any freedom of speech fights. No email holy wars
> please.
> Cheap but good, expensive but good, free but good solutions would be
> entertained.
>
