sendmail Milters: A Guide for Fighting Spam
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Spam is a formidable, costly, and pervasive problem. And now that it is being
used to commit fraud and identity theft, every mail administrator needs to understand
how to successfully monitor and fight spam.
Although they are some of the most powerful anti-spamming tools available,
open-source sendmail Milters have lacked clear documentation...until now. sendmail
Milters: A Guide for Fighting Spam is the first in-depth guide to writing powerful
Milters to block even the cleverest spammers.
Inside this definitive new reference, readers will find:
- An exhaustive description of the Milter interface
- Gruesome details on what spam is, its harmful effects, and the diverse
techniques used by spammers
- A step-by-step guide to luring spammers using a honeypot network
- Ways to decode the common encoding methods used in spam e-mail
- A reference on the Milter libray and how to use it
- Techniques for expanding software to deal with future spamming methods
An accompanying Web site offers downloadable code that can be used as is or
modified.
Whether you administer a sendmail, MS Exchange, procmail or other mail system,
this book will give you the knowledge you need to combat current or future spamming
techniques.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
I. THE NEFARIOUS SPAM PROBLEM.
1. Gorilla versus Guerrilla.
2. The Characteristics of Spam Email.
II: CREATE A TEST ENVIRONMENT.
3. Set Up a Bait Machine.
4. Bait the Hook.
5. Preventive Measures Learned.
III. THE PARTS OF A SENDMAIL MILTER.
6. The Roles and Flow of Milter.
7. The Milter Library.
8. The xxfi User-Composed Milter Function.
IV. NUTS AND BOLTS.
9. Milters and the Environment.
10. User and Temporal Feedback.
11. Handy Routines for the Message Body.
V. APPENDIX
Appendix: Useful Source.
Bibliography.
Index
About the Authors
Bryan Costales has been involved with sendmail for over fifteen
years and is author of the O'Reilly sendmail book (the "bat" book).
He has also written books about C-language programming and Unix communications.
He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his dog, a fine German
shepard named Java.
Marcia Flynt has been involved in software engineering for over
twenty-five years and has managed the email development for opt-in custom email
businesses. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and two children.
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