On (26/11/03 13:15), Kiko Piris wrote: > On 26/11/2003 at 12:10, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, > > > not by > > > each and every mailing list subscriber. > > > Good idea. A number of solutions were discussed on debian-user but > > I can't recall anyone suggesting this. Perhaps a note to the list > > meister would be in order? > > It does not make sense, because the worms do not come from the list > servers. The worm has it's own smtp engine and delivers the mail from > the victim's computer to your mx exchanger directly. Ah yes - that explains why it wasn't mentioned - other ideas concerned munging addresses or restricting access, the former was regarded as being probably easy to overcome and the latter, undesirable.
Although it took me a while to reorganise my mail system (switching from getmail to fetchmail and setting up mailfilter), now its done, swen is a trivial issue for me. I am also using spamassassin for other crap but not yet got it working properly.... need to spend more time on it ;) Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business
