TMDA is an open source software application designed to significantly reduce the amount of spam (Internet junk-mail) you receive. TMDA strives to be more effective, yet less time-consuming than traditional spam filters. TMDA can also be used as a general purpose local mail delivery agent to filter, sort, deliver and dispose of incoming mail.
The technical countermeasures used by TMDA to thwart spam include:
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whitelists: accept mail from known, trusted senders.
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blacklists: refuse mail from undesired senders.
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challenge/response: allows unknown senders which aren't on the whitelist or blacklist the chance to confirm that their message is legitimate (non-spam).
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tagged addresses: special-purpose e-mail addresses such as time-dependent addresses, or addresses which only accept certain kinds of communication. These increase the transparency of TMDA for unknown senders by allowing them to safely circumvent the challenge/response system.
For more information, visit the TMDA homepage and TmdaWiki:
https://tmda.net/ https://wiki.tmda.net/
See the 'doc' subdirectory for a copy of the wiki documentation that matches this release.
Information on the TMDA mailing lists can be found at:
https://wiki.tmda.net/MailingLists
This version/package results:
- from the original TMDA source code (apparently no longer maintained as of November 2017)
- Git-imported and further maintained by Kevin Goodsell at https://github.com/KevinGoodsell/tmda-fork (apparently no longer maintained as of November 2017)
- ported to Python 3 and further maintained by Cédric Dufour at https://github.com/cedric-dufour/tmda (since November 2017)
See the ./tmda/README file for further details