From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 22: 7:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.kconline.com (kconline.com [216.241.132.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB2337B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:07:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from zhadum (zhadum.rim.kconline.com [216.241.133.19]) by mail.kconline.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0O67Op83826 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:07:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikea@kconline.com) Message-ID: <016f01c085cb$eb86a8e0$1385f1d8@rim.kconline.com> From: "Mike Atkinson" To: References: Subject: Re: mail-abuse.org blacklist && sendmail/access.db ... Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:07:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We use 'IPaddressOK' 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. ----- Mike Atkinson - mikea@kconline.com KC Online, Inc. - System Administration ----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Hermit Hacker" To: 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 'domainOK' 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message