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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:26:52 -0400
From:      "George M. Ellenburg" <gme@inspace.net>
To:        "Jason Lixfeld" <jlixfeld@idirect.com>, "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Anti-Spam from www.sendmail.org
Message-ID:  <01bcd296$2ea78870$f828cccf@caffeine>

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Try the following:
makemap hash /etc/spammers < /etc/spammers

then kill and restart sendmail.

Hope that helps!


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, October 06, 1997 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Anti-Spam from www.sendmail.org


|Okay, I have added the two patches (domain must resolve, and no non-local
|relaying) and am noticing some crazyness..  first off, I'm trying to send
|a message through pine, and am getting this error:
|
|  [Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 hash map "spammers": unsafe map file]
|
|Uhmm.. why?! :)
|
|On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:
|
|> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
|> 
|> > Reading up on the anti-spam measures via the rulesets for sendmail.cf, I'm
|> > confused as to wether or not these measures apply to servers (local hubs)
|> > or relays only or do these measures apply to both?!
|> 
|> They apply to everyone, including local workstations.  They certainly
|> should be placed on hubs and relays.  This keeps spammers from using your
|> relays as their relays.
|> 
|> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
|> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
|> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
|> 
|> 
|
|




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