SUMMARY: Blocking spam mail

From: Don Hurst <dlh_at_mcc.cc.tx.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:20:13 -0600

Thanks to the following for responding to my query about blocking spam mail.
 Daniel.Clar_at_supelec.fr (Daniel Clar)
 Brian Parkhurst <brianp_at_u.washington.edu>
 Gary Gladney <gladney_at_stsci.edu>
 Sean O'Connell <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>
 Nestor Ruiz <nruiz_at_hermes.bvl.com.pe>
 Matthias E. Johnson <matthias.johnson_at_mankato.msus.edu>
 Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
 maurerf_at_post.ch
 Jim Belonis <belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu>
 Carl Dickhaus <SYSTEM_at_XAVIER.XU.EDU>
 Andrew Leonard <lists_at_nildp1.arme.cornell.edu>
 Jorge Granjal <jgranjal_at_dei.uc.pt>
 Tom Smith <smith_at_semail.mro.dec.com>
 Alberto Brosich <brosich_at_univ.trieste.it>
 Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs_at_natur.cuni.cz>
 Pedro J. Lobo <pjlobo_at_euitt.upm.es>
 William Flett <will_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
 Bill Bergman <wrb_at_wcsmail.com>
 Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan_at_yunix.co.yu>
 Sudhir Rao <sudhir-rao_at_worldnet.att.net>
 Dave Sill <de5_at_sws5.ctd.ornl.gov>

The majority recommended installing the latest version of sendmail. TCP
wrappers was mentioned as a possible temporary fix. TIS firewall
(www.tis.com), procmail, and qmail were also mentioned. I chose to do TCP
wrappers as a temporary fix. I will install the lastest version of
sendmail later.

Again, thanks to all of you that offered help.

Don

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Don Hurst Internet: dlh_at_mcc.cc.tx.us
System Analyst Phone...: (254)299-8748
McLennan Community College FAX.....: (254)299-8747
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>My site has been receiving spam mail that generates spam mail from our site.
>I've contacted DEC support for help and discovered that my release of DU is
>no longer supported. I'm running 3.2C and DEC mail. We are running on an
>AS1000 that we will be moving off of in a couple of months. Is there
>any way I can block the incoming spam mail? I think I identified several
>addresses where it is coming from? I have tcpwrappers installed, is there
>any way it can block the spammers?
>
Received on Wed Nov 11 1998 - 19:19:15 NZDT

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