[ILUG] 2 quick mail questions.

[Kevin Gannon]

At 12:51 PM 3/1/01 +0000, Martin Pegman wrote:
>Hi,
>Firstly I was hoping that somebody could recommend a secure POP server.
>I don't really want to use one at all but I have no choice, and I am
>unfamiliar with the various ones available.??
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>This morning my DNZ mail server was spammed by something I have never seen
>before. It was a rotating mail script. It changed it's from address every
>mail
>and since it was coming from good old AOL so did the ip address.
>It went to aaa at fineos.com; aab at fineos.com etc for about 5000 mails.
>So my questions is does anybody know where I can get spamdb ?
>I used to have it on a now dead machine and it was great in congunction
>with the FWTK which i am also using. I cannot find it anywhere
>except to some refrences on the debian site that basically say it's no
>longer supported.
>It's great for adding users and domains to your s*^t list on the fly and I
>really could
>have used it this morning.

http://spamshield.conti.nu/ seems like what you are looking for
I havent tested it as yet but it certainly looks like the buisness.

Also I find the following paper very good in general terms on
spam http://www.brettglass.com/spam/paper.html#.

Regards,
Kevin

>Thanks
>Martin P
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