Hi, Interesting ideas, Joe. Why run an extra machine just for that? If you want to intercept/dump/examine attempted spam, I believe you could set up your MTA to do that selectively, while handling valid mail as normal. I'm just getting a handle on configuring exim, so, I may be wrong on the above idea, but I believe it's do-able. Someone correct/educate me/us if I'm wrong there. --terry On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:21:58AM -0400, Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi listers: > > Recently, I brought up an old version of Linux on my 486 just to see what > it was like. I telneted into it and everything went all right. That is, > until, someone started scanning the ports on the old system and found out > that port 25 was open. You can guess what happened... They immediately > tried (and as far as I know succeeded) to send out a piece of spam which > my older version of sendmail happily forwarded. Now, before you tell me > that later versions of sendmail (I believe 8.9 and after) do not allow > relaying by default and that I shouldn't have been playing around with > older software, let me explain the reason for relating this. > > The experience got me to thinking something along these lines. > > Do any of you know if anyone has written a sort-of fake mta (mail > transport agent) that looks like sendmail or some other mail program that > just accepts all mail and stores (or dumps) it without sending it along? > Might be interesting to leave it running on an older machine just to make > some spammer think he's sending out successful messages when you're really > dumping them to /dev/null or something like that. Also might be > interesting to see what you can pick up (though sorting through that mess > probably wouldn't be worth the trouble). > > Any thoughts? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry at CottageInWasaga.com Web: www.CottageInWasaga.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool.
