Sendmail Milters

A Guide for Fighting Spam

Bryan Costales, Marcia Flynt - Collection Linux/Security

329 pages, parution le 10/03/2005

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Résumé

As a Mail Administrator You Need to Understand How to Successfully Monitor and Fight Spam

Milters are among the most powerful antispamming tools available. Until now, there has been no clear and helpful resource for you to learn how to set up and use Milters, sendmail Milters: A Guide for Fighting Spam is the first in-depth guide to writing powerful Milters to block even the most clever spammers.

Inside this definitive new reference, you will find

An exhaustive description of the Milter interface
Insightful 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 email
A reference on the Milter library and its use
Techniques for expanding software to deal with future spamming methods

This book is an indispensable aid to combating spam, now and in the future. If you administer a sendmail server, you need to own a copy. All of the program code described in the book is available for download at http://spambook.bcx.org.

L'auteur - Bryan Costales

Bryan Costales is CTO with SL3D, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. He has been active in system administration for over fifteen years and has been writing articles and books about computer software for over twenty years. His most notable books are C from A to Z (Prentice Hall), Unix Communications (Howard Sams), and, of course, sendmail (O'Reilly & Associates).

L'auteur - Marcia Flynt

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.

Sommaire

Preface
The Nefarious Spam Problem
- Gorilla Versus Guerrilla
- The Characteristics of Spam Email
Creating a Test Environment
- Setting Up a Bait Machine
- Baiting the Hook
- Preventive Measures
The Parts of a sendmail Milter
- The Roles and Flow of a Milter
- The Milter-Library
- The xxfi Handler Milter Functions
Nuts and Bolts
- Milters and the Environment
- User and Temporal Feedback
- Handy Routines for the Message Body
Appendix A Useful Source Code
Bibliography
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Bryan Costales, Marcia Flynt
Collection	Linux/Security
Parution	10/03/2005
Nb. de pages	329
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	670g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321213334
ISBN13	978-0-321-21333-4

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