[Mimedefang] Email Filtering Article

[John Nemeth]

On Oct 29,  4:01pm, "Chris Gauch" wrote:
} > -----Original Message-----
} > From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com [mailto:mimedefang-
} > bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Paul Whittney
} > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:52 PM
} > 
} > Most likely people here read slashdot at times (or all the time ;-), but
} > there is an article on filtering email, with graphs, and other ideas.
} > 
} > http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/
} 
} Interesting reading...the most memorable paragraph was this one:
} 
} "Note that qmail, an alternative mail transport program, generates
} post-reception bounce messages in circumstances where other mail transports
} would have refused the reception. This means every qmail site is basically
} an open spam relay. For this reason alone, qmail should never be used by
} anyone."

     There are third party patches available to fix this and other
problems.  The original author, Daniel J. Bernstein, is refusing to
accept them or to even make the necessary changes himself.  The quote
is still somewhat true in that out of the box, qmail is a rogue MTA
that doesn't behave in an acceptable manner.

}-- End of excerpt from "Chris Gauch"