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TMDA - SPAM reduction system and local mail delivery agent

The Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA) thwarts incoming junk-mail by maintaining a "whitelist" of trusted contacts who are allowed directly into your mailbox. It holds messages from unknown senders in a pending queue until they respond to a confirmation request sent by TMDA.

Once they respond to the confirmation, their original message is deemed legitimate and is delivered to you. Updating your whitelist insures they won't have to confirm future messages. TMDA can even be configured to automatically whitelist confirmed senders. This method is very selective about what it allows in while still letting legitimate, but previously unknown, senders reach you.

It also acts as a local mail delivery agent whose filtering language gives you fine-grained control over how mail is delivered and sent. This method is very selective about what it allows in while still letting legitimate, but previously unknown, senders reach you. TMDA currently supports qmail, Postfix, Exim, Courier, and Sendmail.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://tmda.net/
Source tarballhttp://tmda.net/releases/
Source informationhttp://tmda.net/releases/
Version 0.77 (beta) released on 2003-05-01
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Announce List<tmda-announce@tmda.net> http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-announce
Help List<tmda-users@tmda.net> http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
Developer List<tmda-workers@tmda.net> http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
Bug List<tmda-workers@tmda.net> http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • See the THANKS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tmdasourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tmda http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=24680
Interfacesdaemon, command line
Source languagesPython
Use requirementsPython (author recommends 2.2 or later),
Weak prerequisitesprocmail (if sendmail is your MTA), an SMTP server (aka a mail transport agent)
Related programsActive Spam Killer, Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, Black Hole, Spaminator, Splonk, Spam Assassin, Notespam, GNU sauce

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-08-01
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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