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Article: Servers to spam: drop dead. (block unwanted bulk e-mail with Sendmail 8.8 for Unix, Ipswitch's IMail Server 4.0, Software.Com's Post.Office 3.1) (Product Information)
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Nelson Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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If you own and operate an SMTP mail server, chances are you have been a victim of "spam mail" at one time or another. Spam is the pejorative term used for unsolicited, unwanted e-mail broadcasts throughout the Internet, usually sent by unscrupulous marketers who are taking advantage of the Internet's extremely low costs of delivery.
This kind of unsolicited e-mail has become a real problem. Growing amounts of unsolicited mail are directed to users of your mail system, who then have to sort through the junk to get their work done.
Or, worse yet, your server has been "hijacked" by a bulk e-mailer's broadcast, which used it as an unsuspecting relay for ...