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Subject: Re: Sendmail Spam RBL
From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 09:59, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 20), randy said:
> > Hola,
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> No; that's what the ORDB people would do to add you to the blocklist :)
> 
> All you need to do is edit your sendmail .mc file (FreeBSD likes to
> call it /etc/mail/$HOSTNAME.mc), add:
> 
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', `"Mail from open relay rejected - see http://www.ordb.org/lookup/?host=" $&{client_addr}')dnl
> 
> , regenerate your .cf file (if you're using the standard setup, just
> type "make"), and killall -HUP sendmail.
actually, the current make file would need:

cd /etc/mail
vi $hostname.mc
make 
make install
make restart


and poof, it's done. 


> 
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> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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