Package | smtp-refuser |
Priority | Priority |
Section | mail |
Installed-Size | 36 |
Maintainer | David Coe |
Architecture | i386 |
Version | 1.0.4 |
Depends | libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7) |
Suggests | tcpd, mail-transport-agent |
Filename | pool/main/s/smtp-refuser/smtp-refuser_1.0.4_i386.deb |
Size | 12382 |
MD5sum | 2d2c864e9ea15d1c9789b0eca40a0d80 |
Description | Simple spam-block with refusal message |
| Smtp-refuser can be configured to reject mail from specific hosts
(or that satisfy other tcpd hosts.allow or similar rules), returning a
meaningful message including the reason it was bounced and a local phone
number. Because spam often has a bad envelope-from, (and because this
is more efficient), we bounce it with an error message during the
SMTP transaction, rather than send bounce mail later.
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This SMTP refuser is used along with "tcpd" or (another TCP security
daemon) to bounce messages from the IP addresses of known spammers. The
advantage of this over just blocking the connection is that the remote
SMTP server will not retry, and a legitimate e-mail sender will get a
polite message telling them why their mail was blocked and whom to call
to get around the blocking.
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Mail that is not blocked by smtp-refuser is delivered to your standard
mail transport agent.
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Other, more automated solutions such as RBL and ORBS (supported by
most of the mail transfer agents), have become available since
smtp-refuser was written, but this may still be of interest to you.
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