BlackMail
The Anti-Spam Mailer Proxy (this is NOT A DAEMON!)
by Ken Hollis <khollis@chatlink.com>
Maintained by James Murray <jsm@jsm-net.demon.co.uk>
This is blackmail the anti-spam mail filter. Blackmail wraps
around you existing SMTP mailer (e.g. smail, sendmail, qmail) and
gives configurable protection against spam. The aim is to
bounce spam _before_ it lands on your system.
VERSION 0.29
Any updates will likely be found at
http://www.jsm-net.demon.co.uk/blackmail/source
or the Turlish mirror at
http://www.spam.org.tr/blackmail/source/
Platform support:
BlackMail is known to run under:
Linux ix86
*BSD
NeXTStep 3.x
AIX
SVR4
SunOS
Solaris
and more...
(... please fill in the large blank space ...)
BlackMail will not run on any Non-Unix OS.
Mailer support:
Blackmail is known to work with:
smail
sendmail
qmail
fetchmail
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This program is released under the GPL version 1 and higher.
It is and always will be Free Software.
Installing this program means you agree to the terms and
conditions stated in the GPL licensing file included with
this distribution. If you do not agree with the GPL License
or these terms, DO NOT INSTALL BLACKMAIL. THIS SOFTWARE COMES
WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
(For a flowchart of how BlackMail interprets each command,
see "COMMANDS" for more details.)
BlackMail is a mail filter proxy that fits on to your SMAIL or
other mailer daemon, and filters (and rejects) mail based on
certain keywords using the wildmat matching scheme (or using
wildcards.)
In use, BlackMail consists of two files:
o) blackmail.conf:
Contains a listing of domains treated as spam sites,
local sites, allowed forwarding domains, etc. (See
manual page for more information.)
o) blackmail:
The actual filter itself.
Please see the file INSTALL for installation details.
If you have questions about BlackMail, please E-Mail
James Murray <jsm@jsm-net.demon.co.uk>
or see the website at http://www.jsm-net.demon.co.uk/blackmail/blackmail.html
Other anti-spam websites that may be of interest include:
http://www.cauce.org
http://www.vix.com
Note: if the version of Blackmail you have is more than a couple of months
old, please check the bitgate or jsm-net websites as a newer, better etc.
blackmail may already have been released.
Reporting Bugs / Problems
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Please be sure to mention the following:
Release of blackmail
OS
Clear description of problem
Any relevant error messages
Extract of your /var/log/messages, /usr/adm/messages or equivalent.
Message sent to sender
Portion of original mail that caused problem
A summary of options enabled in Makefile/ blackmail.conf
(no need to include whole files initially.)
thanks
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