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 --- 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 ------------------------- 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
