[ILUG] S P A M question.

[Liam Bedford]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:52:59PM +0000, Lars Hecking came forth with:
> Francis Crossen writes:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > We are using a redhat based system (based on v7.0) and sendmail/procmail for e-mail.
> > 
> > I was wondering if there are any nice anti-spam packages out there rather that the usual blacklist-type packages.
> > 
> > What I want is a server that will verify HELO/EHELO and MAIL From: headers with DNS lookups.  You know the score: received-from a relaying mail server, where that server happily accepts connections from ppp clients posing as non-existent domains.
> > 
> > Anybody come across anything like that?
yes. It's called sendmail :)

sendmail (at least in the setup we run) refuses mail from domains that
don't exist (breaks jobfinder.ie mail :))

RTFM.

L.
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