mail enable spam filter thoughts for 12.31.1969

  • The mail abuse protection system (maps) realtime blackhole list is a "system for creating intentional network outages for the purpose of limiting the transport of known-to-be-unwanted mass e-mail.
  • Access to the mail system from suspected spam addresses can then be slowed or temporarily suspended.
  • A mail host is a computer on the internet that is dedicated to transferring e-mail from senders to recipients.
  • A line within an SMTP mail header that begins with the word "Received:" and describes one SMTP handoff between a pair of mail hosts, is the routing line.
  • A header will contain one or more routing lines to describe the complete path taken by a message, from host to host, on its way from the sending machine to the recipient's mail host.
  • One problem with spam software is that sometimes detects e-mails which are not spam, and they get thrown into the junk mail folder, sometimes resulting in an important mail being missed.
  • A good mailing list is usually quite secure against spam, because only bona-fide members can send mail to the list, and membership usually requires a voluntary signup and verification, though these lists are vulnerable to harvesting if they post publicly-accessible archives on the web.
  • Open proxies now account for the vast majority of spam mail transmissions, as they make the mail much more difficult to trace to its ultimate source.

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