spam guard in postfix thoughts for 12.31.1969

  • The most effective approach to spam prevention is to keep off of lists where spammers might find your e-mail address.
  • A Directory Harvest Attack (DHA) is when a spammer bombards a domain with thousands of generated email addresses in an attempt to collect valid email addresses from an organisation.
  • Spam recipients who use Exchange-based mail services are at a relative disadvantage in tracing spam messages, since Exchange clients often make it difficult to see SMTP headers.
  • It may have some of the same capabilities as a mail transfer agent, but is mainly used for pop3 or imap mail pickup, and may add special capabilities such as spam filtering.
  • A spam filter is a process that examines a stream of incoming mail messages and sorts them into those that may be spam and those that probably aren't.
  • ROKSO (Registry of Known Spam Operations) is an extensive database of spam perpetrators and support operations, maintained by The Spamhaus Project.
  • If you use outlook it is suggested you get a spam blocker.
  • Spam has come to mean unsolicited commercial email (uce) which is also known as bulk email.

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