What is SPAM

Relayed Mail

Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts such mail. It is delivered to senders outside of the local area (including MX hosting &c). Modern MTA's doesn't allow this anymore. Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed.

Spam

Spam is mainly UCE (unsolicited commercial email (sp?)). That's mail sent to you and a hundred of others that all didn't want to receive them. Some of the known Spammers may be blocked by MAPS RBL ((Mail Abuse Prevention System). We're doing this on our server lists.debian.org.

Avoiding

Debian GNU/Linux ships some mechanisms for avoiding spam and mail relaying:

• spamdb