Re: spamd on OpenBSD 3.2

[Adam H.Pendleton <fmonkey () fmonkey net>]

I haven't gotten a change to play with it too much, but the program 
looks interesting.  I would be interested in seeing if someone has 
quantitatively measured the potential (or actual) impact the program 
could have on a spammer.

In order to [form a more perfect union] to allow people other than 
OpenBSD users to enjoy spamd, I have ported it to Linux.  It ought, 
ought I said, ought, to compile on almost all Linuxes, but it has only 
been tested on RedHat 7.3.  The tarball can be obtained from:

ftp://ftp.fmonkey.net/pub/people/fmonkey/code/spamd/

If anyone has problems with the program, please report them to me, NOT 
the OpenBSD maintainers, as they had nothing to do with this port.  If 
there is sufficient demand, I will also port the spamd-setup.sh script 
to create ipchain/ipfilter to automatically re-direct known spam IP's 
to a given spamd port.  Currently the script creates rules for ipf, 
which is OpenBSD-dependent.

ahp

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 01:11 AM, Lance Spitzner wrote:

> Anyone try out the new spamd(8) on OpenBSD 3.2?  It appears
> to me to be an Anti-Spam relay honeypot.  From the manpages:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>      spamd is a a fake sendmail(8)-like daemon which absorbs false 
> mail.  If
>      the pf(4) packet filter is configured to redirect port 25 (SMTP) 
> to this
>      daemon, it will attempt to waste the time and resources of the 
> spam
>      sender.
>
> --
> Lance Spitzner
> http://www.tracking-hackers.com

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