Re: Debian and spam

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 11/12/04

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    On (12/11/04 10:48), John Hannibal Smith wrote:
    > Hi everyone,
    >
    > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address
    > (jsmith@cistst.com) be sold or distributed?
    >
    > Just curious! Thanks!
    No it won't be sold or distributed but spammers harvest mailing list
    archives and news groups for email addresses and now that you've posted
    to the list, your address is "out there".

    The good news is that there are many ways of dealing with spam using
    Debian, even so far as blocking it at smtp time and so most of it never
    reaches your machine. Below are a range of packages that deal with
    spam:

    amavis-stats - Virus statistics RRDtool frontend for Amavis
    amavisd-new - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters
    amavisd-new-milter - Interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new
    bld - Black List Daemon, automatically build blacklists
    bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter
    bsfilter - Bayesian spam filter
    crm114 - The Controllable Regex Mutilator and Spam Filter
    dcc-client - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - client programs
    dcc-common - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - common files
    dcc-milter - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - sendmail milter plugin
    dcc-server - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - server programs
    drac - Dynamic Relay Authorization Control (pop-before-smtp)
    drac-dev - Dynamic Relay Authorization Control (development files)
    exim - An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
    exim4-base - EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a Mail Transport Agent
    exim4-daemon-heavy - Exim (v4) with extended features, including
    exiscan-acl
    gnus-bonus-el - Miscellaneous add-ons for Gnus
    gotmail - Utility to download email from a Hotmail or MSN account
    graphdefang - create graphs of your mimedefang spam and virus logs
    greylistd - Simple greylisting daemon for use with Exim & other MTAs
    hashcash - postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations
    hinfo - Check address ownership and DNSBL listings for spam reporting
    ifile - a text/e-mail/spam filter capable of learning
    ifile-gnus-el - a news and mail classifier for the Gnus newsreader
    ilohamail - Light weight yet full featured multilingual web-based
    IMAP/POP3 client
    ircd-hybrid - High-performance secure IRC server
    lg-issue62 - Issue 62 of the Linux Gazette.
    lg-issue66 - Issue 66 of the Linux Gazette.
    lg-issue67 - Issue 67 of the Linux Gazette.
    lg-issue86 - Issue 86 of the Linux Gazette.
    libmail-bulkmail-perl - Platform independent mailing list module
    libnet-smtp-server-perl - A native Perl SMTP Server implementation
    libroxen-cloakingdevice - Mailto mutilation module for the Roxen
    Challenger web server
    libroxen-mailcloak - Mail cloak module for the Roxen Challenger web
    server
    libspf2-0 - Sender Policy Framework library, written in C
    libspf2-dev - Header and development libraries for libspf2
    libsrs2-0 - SRS email address rewriting engine
    libsrs2-dev - Development tools for the libsrs2
    licq-plugin-jonsgtk - graphical user interface plug-in for Licq using
    GTK+
    listadmin - command line mailman moderator queue manipulation
    mailfilter - A program that filters your incoming e-mail to help remove
    spam
    mailman - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager
    mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger
    messagewall - An SMTP proxy daemon, designed to help keep out unwanted
    email
    mh-e - Emacs interface to the MH mail system
    opensp - OpenJade group's SGML parsing tools
    p3scan - transparent POP3-proxy with virus- and spam-scanning
    pimppa - powerful tool to loot binaries from newsgroups smartly
    pop-before-smtp - watch log for POP/IMAP auth, notify MTA to allow relay
    pop3browser - Allows to check a pop3 mailbox before downloading any mail
    popfile - email classification tool
    postgrey - Greylisting implementation for Postfix
    proxycheck - checks existence of open proxy
    python2.3-spambayes - Python-based spam filter using statistical
    analysis (2.3.x)
    pyzor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network
    razor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network
    sa-exim - Use spamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA
    sauce - SMTP defence software against spam
    sendmail - A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent
    sendmail-bin - A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent
    sim - Simple Instant Messenger
    smtp-refuser - Simple spam-block with refusal message
    smtpd - Mail proxy for firewalls with anti-spam and anti-relay features
    sp - James Clark's SGML parsing tools
    spamass-milter - sendmail milter for filtering mail through spamassassin
    spamassassin - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
    spambayes - Python-based spam filter using statistical analysis
    spamc - Client for SpamAssassin spam filtering daemon
    spamoracle - A statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula
    spamoracle-byte - A statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes'
    formula
    spampd - a spamassassin based SMTP/LMTP proxy daemon
    spamprobe - a C++ Bayesian spam filter
    sugarplum - an automated and intelligent spam trap/cache-poisoner
    sylpheed-claws-spamassassin - SpamAssassin plugin for Sylpheed Claws
    tmda - Tagged Message Delivery Agent
    usermin-spamassassin - Spamassassin module for the usermin web-based
    administration tool
    webmin-spamassassin - spamassassin control module for webmin
    xmail - Advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server
    xmail-doc - Documentation for xmail
    ucspi-tcp-src - Source only package for building ucspi-tcp binary
    package

    Regards

    Clive 

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