On 13 May 1999, Lars Hecking <lhecking(_at_)nmrc(_dot_)ucc(_dot_)ie> wrote:
Dave Robbins writes:
I've just been notified that my users are being spammed by someone
sending mail to
Undisclosed(_dot_)Recipients(_at_)magic(_dot_)geol(_dot_)ucsb(_dot_)edu (my
server). Rather than get all of our users to add the sender to
their killfile, is there a way to delete the spam and return
EXITCODE 77 to the spammer with either sendmail (8.9.3) or procmail
(3.11pre4)? Procmail is my local mailer but I've never heard of a
system-wide .procmailrc -- probably wouldn't be kosher.
IMHO it's better to use sendmail for deflecting spammers because the
cost for you (in terms of machine resources, time) is lower.
[...]
<blurb mode="evangelistic">
Better yet, you might want to take a look at postfix:
http://www.postfix.org/
It's a _lot_ faster than sendmail, more secure, and allows you a far
better control over what you accept and what not. I've been using it on
production servers since the first public release in December 1998, and
I never looked back.
</blurb>
Regards,
Liviu Daia
--
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Institute of Mathematics web page: http://www.imar.ro/~daia
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