Talk on spam filtering and/or SMTP (was Re: [oclug] SendMail as a restricted mail relay)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 03/11/04 Matthew Wilcox said:

> I've seen questions on the OCLUG IRC channel that show people are very
> confused between SMTP, POP and IMAP, so starting by explaining the
> different "mail server protocols" would not be out of order.

Not to mention explaining why SMTP is so naive to begin with, which is
the reason spam permeates the internet the way it does.

Mike

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