Re: Dealing whith junk mail

Bill Becker (bbecker@bill.org)
Wed, 21 May 1997 01:27:03 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 20 May 1997, Bo Kullmar wrote:

> > However sendmail provides a powerfule yet not very known way to deal whith
> > that.
>
> Yes, but this requires sendmail 8.8.5 and you configure it in
> a M4 file with that version of sendmail.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html

Anyone who has a permanent connection to the internet should also consider
using sendmail to prevent spammers and mailbombers from relaying email
through your mail server.

The check_rcpt method is best because it rejects the email right after
'rcpt to:' -- Before the email is transmitted to you.

See http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html

Bill

>
> --Bo Kullmar
>