Contributed by SolarCatcher on from the dept.
1. OpenBSD is secure and solid.
2. OpenBSD comes with a tool to stop the spam before it even gets sent: spamd, a "fake" Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that accepts SMTP connections and decides whether a sender is a spammer or not.
Find this introductory article at http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252
A second article shall explain how to configure spamd.
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By Anonymous Coward (24.37.242.64) on
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By Terrell Prude' Jr. (151.188.247.104) microman@cmosnetworks.com on
You're quite welcome. But the OpenBSD team is really to thank because they are the ones who made this wonderful software. The article was written in tribute to them, and the proceeds from the article are going to them.
As a matter of fact, the period ending this sentence contains one of my greytrapping addresses, using an "a href" tag. Yep, you just passed it. There's another one in the previous paragraph. They are thus hidden from humans, but, heh heh, not the spambots. :-) Just take a look at the HTML source for this post; I point this out as a demonstration to all of you of one effective way to do greytrapping. I do this kind of thing everywhere that I can.
I also feel it appropriate to note here that I am one of those "Linux guys" that so many here seem to despise. I'm not your enemy, folks. I'm your ally.
--TP
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By dude mannn (dude-mannn) on
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> --TP
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"If you know your brother is a greedy bastard
never give him the password
If he goes penguin on you,
stop - being - his brother."
Dear TP:
ubuntu warm and fuzzy
puffy goes down hard
MG
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By Anonymous Coward (151.188.247.104) on
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> > --TP
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> "If you know your brother is a greedy bastard
> never give him the password
> If he goes penguin on you,
> stop - being - his brother."
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> Dear TP:
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> ubuntu warm and fuzzy
> puffy goes down hard
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> MG
:-)
--TP
By frantisek holop (165.72.200.11) on
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By Anonymous Coward (128.131.95.19) on
> what is he talking about?
spamlogd(8)
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By frantisek holop (165.72.200.11) on
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By Terrell Prude' Jr. (151.188.247.104) on
Here's where we go into some more detail about that.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1631206
--TP
By Bob Beck (128.131.95.19) beck@openbsd.org on http://ichhabeschesseinmeinenlederhosen.at/
A bit dated perhaps. 4.1 spamd is a bit different from
what he's describing
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By Xipher (12.219.26.162) on
> A bit dated perhaps. 4.1 spamd is a bit different from
> what he's describing
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That is because he is using 4.0 for the article. He probably wrote it a while back and wanted to use what was easily available rather then the current cvs versions or snapshots.
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By Terrell Prude' Jr. (151.188.247.104) microman@cmosnetworks.com on
You are correct on all counts. The first draft was in late January, then I went on vacation for a bit, which of course took up some time. I did indeed use 4.0 for the article, as that was (and, to date, still is) the current stable version. It doesn't look like 4.1 spamd will be all that different, according to my reading of the changelogs, so the information should still be applicable. The biggest change for me is that we won't have to throw the -g switch anymore, since greylisting will be turned on by default.
--TP
By Yves (87.194.39.146) on
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By SolarCatcher (87.65.171.170) on