discuss: Proposal: Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Proposal: Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers HOWTO
From:
Luc de Louw ####@####.####
Date:
30 Jun 2004 20:50:35 -0000
Message-Id: <40E32797.2080107@delouw.ch>
Stein Gjoen wrote:
> Tor Slettnes wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am in process of writing up a fairly lengthy document on SMTP
>> transaction-time spam/malware filtering, for use in incoming mail
>> exchangers.
>
>
>
> This sounds interesting, well worth inclusion into TLDP.
>
> I would propose that you extend filtering to include the
> growing epidemic of "virus warnings" from clueless sites
> claiming you sent them a virus when the from address was
> autogenerated by the worm by harvesting addresses from
> the disk at the infected host.
>
> Currently I receive about 200 spams and about 10 bogus
> viral warnings per day and still increasing.
Hi all,
To prevent doing the work twice, have a look at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO
There are differnt techniques against SPAM and Viruses...
rgds
Luc
