From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)
Organization: Leiden University,
              Dept. of Mathematics &amp; Computer Science,
              The Netherlands
Message-Id: &lt;199612050819.IAA13488@ind206ab.wi.leidenuniv.nl&gt;
Subject: junkmail &amp; sendmail (was Re:  Email/News Gateways)
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:19:44 +0100 (MET)
Cc: cas@taz.net.au, karl@tower.net.au
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Package: sendmail, smail, procmail, mailagent, netbase
Version: current

(Reason for the package line: there are a number of ways to deal with
junkmail, on different stages of the process of mail delivery.
tcpwrappers can be used to disallow connections from known offenders.
The mail transfer agents or mail filters can be instructed to forward junk 
messages to /dev/null, or fake &quot;user doesn't exists&quot; replies)

Although this came up in a discussion on debian-private, I think it 
amounts to a feature request, and as such, I think the bug tracking
system is a more appropriate way of dealing with it.

Craig Sanders wrote:
&gt; What would be beneficial, though, would be for debian's sendmail package to
&gt; take advantage of sendmail 8.8's anti-junkmail features.
&gt; 
&gt; There are new sendmail rules for blocking relaying mail from certain
&gt; hosts/domains, and i believe rules for blocking reception of mail from
&gt; certain domains.
&gt; 
&gt; It would be good to have that easily enabled as a standard question in
&gt; sendmailconfig.

Yes, but indeed as a question. We don't want claims of censorship.

&gt; A maintained list of known spam sites (cyberpromo.com,
&gt; answerme.com, getrich.com etc etc) would be useful here too.

My procmail junk filter is based on a number of sources, some of high
quality:
- http://www.panix.com/rc.shared (http://www.panix.com/e-spam.html)
- http://host.ptbo.igs.net/~shawn/junkmail.html
- http://www.metareality.com/~nathan/visit.cgi/spam/html.Offenders
- http://www.vix.com/spam/rogues.html
  (http://www.vix.com/spam/ also has pointers for configuring sendmail
  and tcpwrappers)
- news://news.admin.net-abuse.misc [nanm]
- news://news.admin.net-abuse.email [nane]
- http://www.idot.aol.com/preferredmail/ [aol]
- http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~set/spam/spammers.txt
- http://www.rahul.net/dhesi/nojunk.txt

Greetings,
Ray
-- 
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.