Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 18:53:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best kept "secrets" finally exposed Message-ID: <199712150253.SAA10440@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199712150045.QAA07285@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Dec 14, 97 04:45:10 pm
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Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
>
> > What computer stores don't want you to know is that a well made,
> [rest of spam deleted]
>
> It looks like the sendmail.cf rules on hub are incorrectly defined -- this
> should not have gotten past the RBL check. This would explain an earlier
> comment that the RBL rules had not resulted in any blocked messages.
>
> Also note that it came from a machine with no PTR record available -- so why
> didn't the earlier check get it? Has all spam checking been disabled on hub?
>
>
no they have not been turned off.
we are not doing reverse lookups.
we are already rejecting over 2000 connections attempts everyday,
some of those from legitimate people with cretinous sys admins.
this host is in vixie's rbl....
i am checking the client_addr in check_mail.
client_addr may not be defined in check_relay (per 2nd ed of sendmail)
i will look into this.
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