The reason email on the internet exists at all is that there are standards for handling it that have gone through the RFC process to be accepted. When someone can point to a relevant standard specifying how email MUST be authenticated in a certain way and everyone does it the same way, then sites will be justified in refusing communications with others that don't follow the accepted standard. Until then it is all handwaving and vigilante activity - and mostly ineffective as well.
Hmmm, since the point of a wiki is that it is easier to fix something yourself than to complain about it, if those wiki sites are still disorganized it is your own fault....
The modified RedHat distribtion peviously known as e-smith (now SMEserver) is available for free download at http://www.e-smith.org (follow the download link). It includes pretty good ipchains based firewalling, even when configured to run as a server and internet gateway on the same machine. If you haven't seen e-smith, it is basically an office-in-a-box providing internet NAT routing and all the usual server functions with administration through a web interface simple enough that you can let someone else do it all. They have been purchased by Mitel who sells service related to the software - if you vist the http://www.e-smith.com site (instead of.org) you won't even see the free download mentioned.
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The reason email on the internet exists at all is that there are standards for handling it that have gone through the RFC process to be accepted. When someone can point to a relevant standard specifying how email MUST be authenticated in a certain way and everyone does it the same way, then sites will be justified in refusing communications with others that don't follow the accepted standard. Until then it is all handwaving and vigilante activity - and mostly ineffective as well.
Hmmm, since the point of a wiki is that it is easier to fix something yourself than to complain about it, if those wiki sites are still disorganized it is your own fault....
The modified RedHat distribtion peviously known as e-smith (now SMEserver) is available for free download at http://www.e-smith.org (follow the download link). It includes pretty good ipchains based firewalling, even when configured to run as a server and internet gateway on the same machine. If you haven't seen e-smith, it is basically an office-in-a-box providing internet NAT routing and all the usual server functions with administration through a web interface simple enough that you can let someone else do it all. They have been purchased by Mitel who sells service related to the software - if you vist the http://www.e-smith.com site (instead of .org) you won't even see the free download mentioned.