[vox-tech] spam current events
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Sep 1 03:02:58 PDT 2006
Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org):
> You'd be shocked at the effectiveness of rejecting email that says it comes
> from "dirac.org" or email that doesn't have a valid fqdn sender.
[...]
> All this stuff is done at the MTA level, so no delivery is attempted.
Ditto that.
For those using the Exim4 MTA, consider the EximConfig prepackaged
configuration set as a starting point:
http://www.jcdigita.com/eximconfig/ It includes Exim4 ACLs that
actively check for various forms of RFC compliance prior to SMTP-level
acceptance.
Kudos on joining the "reject, don't bounce" movement. ;->
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