Spam mail prevention
Email Spam Control
Find out how to control spam email
using the Configuration Settings
document, server mail rules, and inbound
SMTP spam commands. This
article is part one in a series about
email spam filter controls : Methods of email
spam control, and spam prevention
services. E-mail harvesting is
perfectly legal, no different than
flipping through a phonebook, jotting
down several names and numbers, and
subsequently calling those numbers to
sell and market products. E-mail
addresses are extracted from various
internet sources: webpages, newsgroups,
list archives, bulletin boards, and
anything else that is internet
accessible. But you can protect against
spammers. Email protection for spamming
can be free. There are many e-mail spam
filters on the market. In the ever-changing world
of technology, the amount of spam mail
is increasing faster than most email
spam control systems can handle or
control. In 2004, almost nine billion
dollars was spent by all U.S.
corporations to fight spam.
Email spam control has been building
ways to prevent spam email and to
restrict Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMTP messages. It introduced a
Graphical User Interface (GUI) in which
administrators could list values within
fields in the Configuration Settings
Document. This made SMTP configurations
easier for a administrator and took some
of the burden off Notes users. Case is
that you can fight spam by some simple
rules.
The most effective place for email spam
control is through the Configuration
Settings document. The Configuration
Settings document has several tabs that
allow you to filter SMTP email,
therefore reducing the amount of spam.
On the Configuration Settings document
Router/SMTP - Restrictions and Controls
- SMTP Inbound Controls tab, there are
six additional sections to configure the
SMTP protocol. |
