On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David Sewell wrote: : I think a Debian spam-blocking package, using TCPD and generalized to : cover all MTAs, would be a good thing, with a couple of caveats.
That's quite difficult to implement. One of the most important reasons: not all MTA are using tcpserver/inetd/xinetd as their 'parent'. For example ZMailer and Sendmail do create their own serversocket. (Yes I know, both of them have options to make them spawned by inetd). Another reason that you don't want to use (imho) tcpd as a spamfilter: I like to 'filter' messages on more than just the other end's IP-address. I know ZMailer supports additional blocking: - source address (ip) - HELO line - MAIL line - RCPT line - existance of a valid DNS-entry in the several lines This makes the blocking highly configurable -> that's what you want to have (imho again :/ ) Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. " -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
