[10164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Jun 18 22:49:03 1997
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:43:28 -0400
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: Brian Horvitz <horvitz@websecure.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970618214553.7047A-100000@sp02.websecure.net> [9706.18]
On Jun 18, Brian Horvitz <horvitz@websecure.net> wrote:
> Can someone give me a clue on filtering mail on using the stock sendmail
> that comes with Solaris?
I can probably point you in the right direction (it's a
hobby of mine), but the first step is unquestionably
to upgrade to a modern sendmail.
> Anyway, I have the email address that
> he is using as for the FROM: field so I'd like to simply block that out.
That won't be enough. Now that one spammer knows your
site allows relaying, you can expect more to do the same
thing.
> Help would be appreciated.
The best resource is http://spam.abuse.net/ -- the patches
and recipes at http://www.sendmail.org/ don't work for
everybody yet. Feel free to bug me privately if you've
got any questions about which one to use, etc.
--
J.D. Falk, Network Operations Center Supervisor +1 (415) 482-2840
Priori Networks, Inc. http://www.priori.net
"The people you know. The people you trust."
