From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 10:20:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.volant.org (gate.volant.org [207.111.218.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DBA37B40C for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 216-55-134-176.dsl.san-diego.abac.net ([216.55.134.176] helo=[192.168.0.13]) by gate.volant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17LS4F-0003kX-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:19:27 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:19:26 -0700 From: Pat Lashley To: randy , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail Spam RBL Message-ID: <2148160000.1024679965@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <20020620102257.K53188-100000@desert.turbowarp.net> References: <20020620102257.K53188-100000@desert.turbowarp.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86 Demo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:33:00 AM -0400 randy wrote: > These guys are scaring me. I have read and re-read the Sendmail > configuraions readme's and my eyes glaze over and then roll into the back > of my head. > > Can it or is it really as difficult as they make it out to be? Yes, it can. The easiest way to solve your MTA configuration problems is to switch from sendmail to an alternative with easier to understand config files. Personally, I've been very happy with Exim for about 10 years now... > I just want to set up spam filter for "direct useage via DNS" ... for > mail-abuse or ordb. > > Do I simply add "5.123.89.192.relays.ordb.org. IN A 127.0.0.2" to my DNS > record for each domain? Do I need to do anything else? Other replies have explained how to setup DNS based RBL in sendmail. I'd just like to point out that Exim 4.x makes it easy to access multiple RBL lists, with possibly different actions for each. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message