PermaLink Site FAQ - Issue 6
To make things a little easier for people coming here for the first time, I have updated my brief list of posts which readers may find helpful. Regular readers (and anyone else for that matter) may wish to point out any useful items I may inadvertently have omitted (just post a comment).


Why?

On Topic - Mission Update


Best practice

***** SMTP fixup
**** Superstition (garlic, silver bullets, disclaimers)
**** Unintended consequences - Backscatter vectors
**** When should a machine respond to email?
*** Count your MXes
** Another reason not to use port 25 for message submission
** Closing the loop
** In defence of $KeepPrivate
** Never whitelist localhost
** To block or not to block...


DOGTRAQ

** Memo to Milo
**Stealth feature in canine firmware may cause manure overruns


DNS block lists (blacklists)

*** Gmail, spam and blacklisting
*** Recommended DNSBLs
** What port do I need to open for DNSBL queries?


Domain or IP literals

*** postmaster@, domain literal, RFC compliance...


Domino SMTP

***** The ideal server configuration document
**** A Domino MSA Server
**** Setting up Domino SMTP TLS
**** Some recommended server configuration settings
*** 220 too much information
*** A Domino Anti-Spam Architecture
*** Domino server - Rejecting spam at the protocol level
*** Domino Server: SMTP Stats - part 1
*** Enforcing a local Domino sender policy
*** Groups in Domino Server Config Documents
*** Setting up and testing DNSBLs in Domino 6.x
*** SMTP and Internet Site Documents
*** SMTP Server: mail.example.com (192.168.0.1) disconnected. 0 message[s] received
*** Verify connecting host in DNS
** Nolisting - Poor Man's Greylisting


Domino Web Servers

**** 302, pagejacking and Domino
**** Blog templates and web site documents
**** Client side caching of images
**** Why GZip is disabled in D7
*** DOMCFG.nsf - what did I miss? (see comment 11)
*** Multiple SSL sites, single Domino server
** Allow for basic authentication of some URLs (see comment 7)


Domino 4.6

*** Avoid Domino 4.6 as an SMTP server


Domino 7/8

***** Populating your whitelist using Pareto analysis
**** Identifying DNSBL false positives
**** Self Service Whitelisting
**** SMTP and Internet Site documents in D7
*** Making Nomad Work
*** SMTP Server: Authentication is not enabled in the SMTP Internet Site Document for...
** Get ready for the ND7 whitelist
** TNEFEnableConversion=0


Enhanced mail rules

***** Enhanced Mail Rules on D7
***** Free for a limited time
**** Getting started with enhanced mail rules
**** How to reject backscatter
** Some minor tweaks


Idea Jam

**** SMTP whitelist should trump verify connecting hostname in DNS


Know your enemy

**** Spam proxies and back doors
**** You need spam
**** Unsafe at any speed
*** How to lay low an entire email community
** Slammin'
** Vista and Office 2007 banned from UK schools


SMTP AUTH

**** How to prevent SMTP AUTH abuse


Surviving...

***** Korean food
* Earthquakes


Viruses

*** Quarantining unknown malware
*** Rejecting Netsky at source (554)
*** Some file types commonly found in email and what to do about them
** Virus Stubs, Domino and Trend SMD3







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