
Reducing Incoming Spam Using a Blacklist Service
Examining every spam message to try to determine its source would be a very tedious,
and probably not very successful, method of spam prevention. An alternative would be to
take advantage of one of the many blacklist services that exist. A blacklist service publishes
and updates a list of known open relay servers.
You can configure your Mac OS X Server to reference such a service for determining
whether you should accept mail from a given host. If, for example, there was a blacklist
service offered by a server named blacklist.pretendco.com, you would follow these steps:
1 In Server Admin’s Mail Settings, ...