sendmail Milters: A Guide for Fighting Spam - Softcover

Costales, Bryan; Flynt, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321213335 ISBN 13: 9780321213334

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2005

Synopsis

"Bryan and Marcia have not only provided tips and tricks for detecting and blocking spam and email fraud but have also written the first of its kind Milter reference guide. This book will help you start writing your own special-purpose mail filters quickly and easily."

--Gregory Neil Shapiro, coauthor of the Milter interface

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.

About this title

About the Author

Bryan Costales has been involved with sendmail for more than fifteen years. He is the author ofsendmail, Third Edition, (O'Reilly, 2003) and books on C programming and UNIX communications.

Marcia Flynt has twenty-five years of experience in software engineering, including managing e-mail development for opt-in custom e-mail businesses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0321213335
• ISBN 13: 9780321213334
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352