Welcome to Michael Peer's sendmail SPAM help Page

Introduction:

One of the disadvantages is all the unwanted e-mail. It has become a big problem taking up bandwidth, disk space, processing power and all kinds of resources from me.

This is a new document. Please be patient while I fill it out with resources and links.

Virus Scanning filter:

• AMaVis -- A Mail Virus Scanner. This filter uses and requires that a virus scanner is installed and configured for it to use.

Spam filter:

• Spamassassin -- Filter to detect e-mails that contain spam.

Sanitizers:

• MIME Defang -- Filter to detect e-mails that contain spam.
• Anomy Sanitizer -- Filter to scan e-mail for unwanted attachements, and clean up incoming e-mail of other malicious stuff..

DNS Lists:

• Open Relay Database -- Tests for a host that is an open relay.
• Spam Cop -- A database of reported spam e-mails.
• Spam Haus -- A database of some of the top Internet spammers.
• rfc-ignorant.org -- Tests for compliance for Internet rfc's.
• DNS Black list website -- Tests if you are on a DNS black list.

Postfix Stuff: ( These are just pointers to stuff I and friends have found )

• postfix integrated with spamassassin and Anomy Sanitizer
• From the postfix FAQ - Running postfix on a firewall
• Postfix Anti-SPAM using OpenBSD
• Postfix with SASL authentication
• OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC
• All kinds of Postfix help!
• Jim Seymour's suggestions/examples for Postfix anti-UCE configuration.
• Postfix Backscatter Howto