Hugh Sasse's Electronic Mail Related Information Page.
Hugh G. Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
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Contents
including resouces for Exim and Fighting Spam.
- General Information
- Information most users will find useful including
information on Internet security and
anti-virus matters, and Hoaxes.
- E-mail clients
- The programs with which one reads and writes e-mail
(Mail User Agents, MUAs)
- Mailing Lists
- Information sources related to mailing
lists, how to find, join and leave them.
- Web (etc) access by E-mail
-
E-mail can be used to access much of the WWW, and also ftp and gopher sites. There are
mailing lists about this.
- E-mail Administration
- Information for those who set up and run servers
including info on:
See also Fighting Spam below.
- Fighting Spam
- Information about spam, unsolicited E-mail and the
like, how to recognise it, prevent it, complain,
and tools to assist in this.
- The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC)'s
comp.mail.misc
FAQS from
Internet FAQ Consortium.
- from the comp.mail.misc newsgroup.
- IANA Root Zone
Whois Information, indexed by TLD.
-
- Top Level Domain name to country index.
- Email
Style.
- Concise notes explaining how to format E-mail so that it can be
read easily, and conveys maximum information.
- "HTML
Email: Whenever Possible, Turn It Off!"
- Configuring Mail Clients to use Plain ASCII Text
(geocities
mirrorhas gone(07-oct-2003))
- Explains when and why MIME and HTML should not be used in
E-mail, and how to turn them off.
Internet mail:
formats from Greg Lehey's
Using Internet mail pages,
is an excellent document relating to this.
Similarly, you may be interested in
the GNU article We Can Put
an End to Word Attachments (
English,
French,
Irish
Mirrors).
- Linux Mail Users HOWTO.
- Internet security and
anti-virus information
-
See also virus hoaxes below.
- Symantec
Ant-Virus Research Center,
- F-Secure Virus
Descriptions,
- University
of Michigan Virus Busters' page.
- A Mail Virus Scanner
ties your MTA to your commercial virus scanner to check
attachments.
- exiscan - a
Perl Virus scanner for
Exim.
-
- The Anomy mail
tools.
- Network Associates
Virus Information Library.
- CERT Computer Emergency Repsonse Team
- Security
News by Chuck Upsdell.
- SecurityFocus.com.
- Georgi Guninski Security Research.
- "Safe Hex" information from Sophos.
- Inflex
- A virus (etc) scanner to wrap around sendmail or Exim
- Internet Hoaxes
- There are various sorts of hoax on the internet.
- CIAC's Internet Hoaxes page
- Virus hoaxes
-
Good Times virus hoax (which has
its own FAQ), etc., etc. See also
Google
Directory Computer Virus Hoaxes page,
Symantec Hoax
page,
Sophos'
"Don't fall for a virus hoax" and
their Hoaxes and Scares page,
McAfee Virus Hoax page,
Network Associates' Virus Hoax Information page,
Computer Virus Myths.
vmyths.com.
Network Associates, Inc
Virus Hoaxes page.
- General Hoaxes
-
Hoax Kill describes how to detect, and what to do about, hoaxes.
The EFF Hoaxes Archive.
The Don't Spread That Hoax page.
Datafellows Hoax Warnings includes virus information, too,
The Urban Legends Archive (a very slow site with far too many images).
For further information about evaluating sources from the internet see
Evaluating Internet Research Sources,
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources.
April Fools on the net an archive of net.humor
- Chain Letters
-
Chain letters are illegal in the USA apart from anything else.
Chain Letters info from rutgers.edu is detailed.
CIAC's Chain Letter site.
- Email Forwards
- Instead of forwarding wodges of text to people, send them to the
copies held here.
- Remote printing -- Email to Fax gateway information
- To find out about this using e-mail alone send a message with no subject or body to
tpcfaq@info.tpc.int.
For a list of the places covered by the sercice send a blank message with no subject to
tpccover@info.tpc.int.
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
-
At the moment this covers the ones used in e-mail, or
in newsgroups, and not computer jargon.
Some of these contain strong language.
- Dr Roney's Page of Acronyms.
- Acronyms and Computer Jargon.
- from the Utopia Software Web site.
- The Canonical Abbreviation/Acronym List.
- Oliver Clark's Acronym Dictionary.
- Acronyms.
- From the-eyes@geocities.com whoever that is.
- A
list of Texting abbreviatons.
- These come from the mobile/cell phone texting culture, but may
be of use.
There is a list of clients and other things at
http://dir.penguinapps.com/Network/Mail/
but this has gone (08-OCT-2003).
There is also a list at http://cws.internet.com/mail.html .
- Configuring Mail Clients to use Plain ASCII Text
(geocities
mirrorhas gone 07-OCT-2003)
- Explains when and why MIME and HTML should not be used in
E-mail, and how to turn them off.
- Arrow
- X based Mail user agent.
- Balsa.
- A Gnome E-mail client with a Eudora-like interface.
- BatMail
- A command line driven mail program for PCs
- Bloomba.
- New (AUG-2003) mail client for the PC.
- CSC Mail.
- Eudora Light
- See also Pete
Beim's [Unofficial] Eudora FAQs & Links page has gone
(08-OCT-2003).
There is a UK distribution site at
http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/eudora/.
- Evolution.
- from Ximian.
- Glow.
- A groupware client from The OpenOffice project.
- Incredimail.
- This is a multimedia E-mail client marketed on the basis that
text e-mails are "dull". The Main
page has more information.There is a more
technical FAQ, covering more details about usage and
installation.
- KMail.
- For KDE under Linux
- Mahogany.
- Mahogany is an OpenSource cross-platform mail and news
client.
- Mew.
- a MIME mail reader for Emacs/Xemacs.
- MH Message Handler
- an MUA for Unix
- Mozilla.
- A web browser that includes a mail client, but see Thunderbird
below, which this has spawned.
- Mulberry
- for Mac and Windows. Supports IMAP and POP.
- Mutt.
- Outlook
Welcome FAQ from Slipstick Systems
- See also
Outlook FAQ.
- Outlook
Express FAQ.
- See also Outlook
Express 5 Howto Guide. There is also an Inside Outlook
Express FAQ, and a PC
Answers Outlook Express FAQ for which Firefox blocked a popup.
Although much in the Loughborough University's Outlook Express
FAQ is specific to that site, it contains useful information for
everyone.
- Pegasus Mail.
- Phoenix Mail.
- Pine (Mail program)
- See also comp.mail.pine newsgroup.
There is a guide to using Pine at
http://www.uq.edu.au/pcc-factsheets/factsheet-5.html.
There is a UK distribution site at
http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/pine/.
- Pocomail
- A shareware client for PCs.
- Popcorn.
- "Popcorn is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/(E)SMTP e-mail
client for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP." from their site.
- Postilion
- ProMail 1.21 is a Trojan Horse
- See, for example, the
Symantec info.
- SGmail
- a client based on Ruby and Tcl/Tk
- Spruce.
- a client in its early stages (25-JAN-2000) for the Gtk windows system
08-OCT-2003: The news page on the site says for 04-MAR-2001: "odds
are the days of Spruce are coming to an end.".
- Sylpheed.
- a GTK+ client for X Windows on Linux.
- TkRat (Ratatosk)
- Thunderbird.
- Mozilla project mail client.
- VINE
is not Pine has gone (08-OCT-2003)
- For use with the Vim editor
- XCmail.
- XCmail is a MIME and multi POP3 server capable mailtool for X11
using the Xclasses layout library.
- Ximian Evoloution.
-
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists search engine.
-
See also Liszt (which
can be accessed by e-mail -- send a message to
liszter@bluemarble.net
with a body of:
search keyword
or
help
for more information) and AOL's Mailing list directory,
the list of LISTSERV® lists at
tile.net, and L-Soft's
CataList
list of LISTSERV® lists. You can search L-Soft's database
by sending a message to listserv@lsoft.com with a body of:
list global /keyword
where string is in the title of the list you are searching
for.
For Mailbase
lists, which are really for the UK academic community,
send a message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with a message body of
find lists keyword
or
help
for more information.
- Accessing the Internet by Email FAQ
(UK Copy has gone
(08-OCT-2003))
-
this is the FAQ for the ACCMAIL list. It can
be obtained by E-mail, as explained (in V 8.3):
This document is now available from several automated mail servers.
To get the latest edition, send email to one of the addresses below.
To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
(for US, Canada & South America)
Enter only this line in the BODY of the note:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
To: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk (for Europe, Asia, etc.)
Enter only this line in the BODY of the note:
send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites:
Site: rtfm.mit.edu
get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
Site: ftp.mailbase.ac.uk
get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt
Note: I cannot find a version more recent than the data
Gerry Boyd stopped maintaining this.
- The ACCMAIL list
-
This is a mailing list about accessing the
internet by e-mail.
To SUBscribe: Send a
message with a body containing:
SUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL firstname lastname
to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
To UNSUBscribe: Send
UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL
to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM.
- Gerald E. Boyd's guides
(Geocities
mirrorhas gone 07-OCT-2003)
-
Including:
-
howto1
(Geocities
mirrorhas gone 07-OCT-2003),
howto2
(Geocities
mirrorhas gone 07-OCT-2003),
howto3
(Geocities
mirrorhas gone 07-OCT-2003)
-
his "How To Do Just about Anything By E-mail"
document in 3 parts
-
his list of Servers
(Geocities
mirrorhas gone 07-OCT-2003)
- that provide services by e-mail.
-
his "Accessing the WWW by Email:
User Guide to WWW search engines" FAQ
And he moderates the ACCMAIL list (above).
- Bob Appleton's guides (NO LONGER MAINTAINED)
-
-
These have been dead for well over a year now, so they have been
commented out.
- Usenet Access by Uzi Paz (
Geocities mirror,
)
-
- "Usenet" here means Internet newsgroups
There is a list of tools and other things at
http://dir.penguinapps.com/Network/Mail/.
- The FAQS for the
comp.mail.*
groups
- Linux Mail Administrator HOWTO.
- The Exim Home Page.
-
- Search Archives of the Exim list.
- There is another search facility here.
- Exim HOWTO - Using the RBL.
- Exim HOWTO - Preventing Relaying.
- My Exim Contributions page.
- FAQ: Does Exim
support DSN?(has gone (07-OCT-2003))
- Exim Filter for blocking Windows
executables.
- The
colondot.net
:
Matthew B-M: Mailfilter page
- has many tips for blocking spam
- fidonet.org.
- MasqMail.
- an MTA for systems which are not permanently connected to the net
- The MMDF Users Group home page.
- The Postfix Home Page
(UK mirror 1,
UK mirror 2)
- The Qmail Home Page
(UK mirror)
- The Sendmail Home Page
- The Anti-Spam page may be of particular interest.
There is The Sendmail FAQ in HTML format.
- The Smail FAQ.
- dot UUCP.
- XMail.
- The ZMailer Home Page
- See also this List of links to Email Related [Information].
- Berkeley DB routines page, to go with Sendmail.
- The Procmail FAQ
- See also Infinite Ink's
Processing Mail with Procmail.
- Moronic Mail Autoresponders (A FAQ From Hell).
-
Related to this is a
Procmail filter for including mail headers as a mime
attachemt, due to Volker Kuhlmann
message-id <20040203225912.GA3188
() paradise ! net ! nz> on bugtraq. Related internet
RFCs include
RFC3834
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
) (Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail)
- IMAP Servers.
-
- University of Washington IMAP Information Center.
- Courier IMAP.
- is a server that provides IMAP access to Maildir mailboxes.
- POP Servers.
-
For details on the protocol, see:
RFC1939
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
)
- Cucipop.
- There seems to be no home page for this
- GNU pop3d.
- popa3d, from the
Openwall Project.
- A pop daemon designed with an emphasis on security.
- qpopper.
- The ftp site is ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/. For rate limiting
on users who POP mail but leave it on the server see HAPPYMAIL.
- tpop3d.
- ZPOP
- There seems to be no home page for this
- zpop3d.
- A Mail Virus Scanner
- ties your MTA to your commercial virus scanner to check
attachments.
- Inflex
- A virus (etc) scanner to wrap around sendmail or Exim
- exiscan.
- A Perl Virus scanner for
Exim.
- Converting Mailboxes:
-
- Emailchemy
the Email alchemist
- Rewrite many proprietry mailboxes as mbox (RFC822)
mailboxes. Also allows some cleanup of mail boxes.
- Dbxconv.
- Converts outlook express mailboxes into unix mbox
format.
- InterGuru
Maibox Conversion, Other Utilities, and Links to Other
Useful Sites.
-
RFC2822
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
)
(obseletes
RFC822
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
)
)
and
RFC2076
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
)
-
These are about headers for internet mail.
For other RFCs see
RFC Index at cmu.edu, and those
RFC sites listed on my home page.
See also DRUMS
(the Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards)
produced by the IETF
(Internet Engineering Task Force).
- RFC2142 Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
)
- MIME FAQ
- See also
RFC2045
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
RFC2046
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
RFC2047
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
RFC2048
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
RFC2049
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
and
RFC989
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
), and
RFC989
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
section 5.2, for definition of base64.
RFC1524
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
),
"A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format
Information" describes .mailcap files
- SMTP and ESMTP
- The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
-
RFC2505
(UK copy,
rfc.net
)
Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
- For an overview see:
"Internet Email, How it Works: Check your Privacy and Security at the Door".
-
RFC2821 (definition of SMTP)
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
))
-
obsoletes RFC821.
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
))
- RFC1869 (SMTP Service Extensions) [i.e. EHLO etc]
- RFC1652 (SMTP Service Extension for
8bit-MIMEtransport
) [8BITMIME]
- RFC1845 (SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart) [CHECKPOINT]
- RFC1870 (SMTP Service Extension for message size declaration) [SIZE]
- RFC1985 (SMTP Service Extension for Remote Queue Starting) [ETRN]
- RFC2034 (SMTP Service Extensions for Returning Enhanced Error Codes) [ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES]
- RFC2047 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.
- RFC2554 (SMTP Service Extension for Authentication) [AUTH]
- See also this
list of SMTP AUTH clients has gone (08-OCT-2003).
- RFC2645 (On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR)) [ATRN]
- RFC2852 (Deliver By SMTP Service Extension) [DELIVERBY]
- RFC2920 (SMTP Service Extensions for command pipelining) [PIPELINING]
- Obsoletes RFC2197.
- RFC3030 ( SMTP
Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages)
[CHUNKING]
- Obsoletes RFC1830.
- RFC3207 (SMTP Service Extension for
Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security)
- obsoletesRFC2487
- RFC3461
(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension
for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs))
- obsoletesRFC1891
- RFC3464
(UK text Copy,
rfc.net
) (An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
Notifications)
- RCF3885
(SMTP Service Extension for Message Tracking)
- updatesRFC3461
- LMTP.
- The Local Mail Transfer Protocol.
- RFC2033.
- QMQP and
QMTP .
- The JANET Mail Administrators Guide dated 1995
-
The up-to-date information may be found at
JANET mail services now.
(JANET is the UK's Joint Academic NETwork).
- The Email/Sendmail page
-
-
from Stokely Consulting's
Unix System Administrator's resources,
which has a lot of good resources on it, an
opinion I formed before their kind remarks
about this page :-).
- CMU's E-Mail Web Resource Index.
- Oceanwave Consulting's
Unix Mail page
This also covers unsolicited commercial e-mail, which
is, strictly speaking, different from spam.
- The Network Abuse Clearinghouse (www.abuse.net)
- Forum for Responsible and Ethical
Email(Seems to have gone 30-JAN-2002) ... or maybe
not (13-MAY-2002).
- The SpamCon Foundation.
- UXN Spam Combat.
- Mike Fleming's
Anti-spam Page.
- The "Death
to Spam" page.
- The
spam.abuse.net
site
(NL mirror)
-
In particular see
Tipa and Help for
Regular Users
(NL mirror)
and
Technical Help for
systems Administrators
(NL mirror)
LINX Best Current Practice for combating Unsolicited Bulk Email,
Where to
complain about Frauds and Scams on the Internet from
The Elsop Webmaster Resource Center,
Get that spammer!,
Net abuse
FAQ[s].
The Spam FAQ,
(UK
copyhas gone (08-OCT-2003)),
Sam Spade (.org) has various tools.
Gerald Boyd has two articles
Tracking E-mail - Part 1 and
Tracking E-mail - Part 2 about
how to read mail headers and the kind of damage spammers inflict on them.
The Internet Mail Consortium has a page about
Limiting Unsolicited Bulk Email.
There are more
FAQS about this whcih have gone (08-OCT-2003).
- CanIT.
- I have not tried this.
- Related to this is the Usenet Death Penalty. See
UDP FAQ for
details.
- Spam|Bar looks like an
interesting solution for PC (Mac soon?) users has gone
(08-OCT-2003).
- There are various Exim related resources linked
from this page.
- The Sendmail Anti-Spam page.
-
RFC2505
(UK copy)
Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
-
RFC2635
(UK copy)
DON'T SPEW: A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*)
-
RFC3098
(UK copy)
How to advertise responsibly using E-mail and Newsgroups.
- "Blackhole" lists
-
- MAPS.VIX.COM no longer exists
- IMRSS The Internet Mail Relay Services Survey Project
- Was withdrawn in September 1999. See the
IMRSS Obituary.
- ip4r (DNSBL-style) DNS lookups
from
declude.com
.
- ORDB The Open Relay Database.
relays.osirusoft.com
Has gone (08-OCT-2003).
- Blars Block
list.
- Distributed Server Boycott List.
- XBL.
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