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Black Hole - Anti-spam application

Blackhole stops spam and prevents unwanted senders from sending you email. It is put in the .qmail file and will divert spam and viruses to separate files which can be checked with an IMAP client if configured to do so. It not only uses the RBL type servers, but also checks against your own list of good/bad domains/users. You can also block email that is sent to an address that is not specified in a list of addresses to use for emailing you.

Blackhole can log and keep the email it blocks, and can be configured to either reply with a message of your choice or make it look like you don't exist on the system. You can also add relays to the list of relays that the script skips. It also has subject line checking with ^ and $ matching lines, and includes a virus checking server program.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://iland.net/~ckennedy/blackhole.shtml
Source tarballhttp://www.securityfocus.com/data/tools/BlackHole.tar.gz
Version 1.0.9 (stable) released on 2003-02-07
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User HOWTO available in HTML format from http://iland.net/~ckennedy/source/docs/blackhole/
Support contacts

Help List<blackholespam-general@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blackholespam-general
Developer List<blackholespam-general@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blackholespam-general
Bug List<blackholespam-general@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blackholespam-general
Bug Databasehttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=47313&atid=449098

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository :pserver:anonymous@cvs.blackholespam.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/blackholespam login http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/blackholespam/BlackHole/
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Use requirementsqmail
Related programsSpam Assassin, Spaminator, GNU sauce, Active Spam Killer, Splonk, NoSpam, sugerplum, Eremove, Mail-bounce, c-nocem

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-02-19
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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