Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:07:23 -0500 From: "Mike Atkinson" <mikea@kconline.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mail-abuse.org blacklist && sendmail/access.db ... Message-ID: <016f01c085cb$eb86a8e0$1385f1d8@rim.kconline.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101231413310.644-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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We use 'IPaddress<tab>OK' rather than the domain name. The blocking is done
by IP address and the address of domain.com is not necessarily the same as
mail.domain.com. Allowing the mail to pass based on domain name alone does
allow the possibility of unwanted email via forged Mail from address.
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Mike Atkinson - mikea@kconline.com
KC Online, Inc. - System Administration
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----- Original Message -----
From: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: mail-abuse.org blacklist && sendmail/access.db ...
>
> Running FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE and sendmail 8.11.1 ...
>
> Recently, I installed the BlackList/RBL and DUL rules into my sendmail.cf
> file, in order to curtail spam better ... works like a charm, but I want
> to use /etc/mail/access to let in a specific host that is blacklist'd ...
> I added 'domain<tab>OK' to the list, type'd 'make access.db', restarted
> sendmail, and they are still being rejected ...
>
> Does the mail-abuse.org rules override the use of the accessdb stuff?
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick:
Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary:
scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
>
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