Re: Filtering for SPAM mailing

The Ogre (ogre@wf.net)
Wed, 14 May 1997 09:39:38 -0500

You might want to take a look at http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html
This page has some measures for dealing with spam.
hth
John Glasser
Web Fire Internet Services

Dave Kennedy wrote:
>
> I need some fast help here. Starting yesterday around 2:30pm, my
> mail server pop.muscle.net began being used as an intermediate site
> for spamming 1000s of AOL users. Needless to say, I'm most unhappy
> with this. Disabling sendmail (SW Linux running 1.2.13) obviously
> stops this, but also prevents my users from receiving their mail.
>
> The reply-to is from slink.com, but gte.net is the actual sender
> as far as I can tell from the logs.
>
> relay=lkl235187.gte.net [207.115.235.187]
>
> What filter can I set on my PM2E to prevent traffic from gte.net
> from my site? Any other suggestions are welcome, also.
>
> Thanks for your help. This is a majorly annoying!
>
> davek
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