Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-spam sendmail in 2.2.5? Message-ID: <199710170306.UAA17664@bofh.noc.best.net> In-Reply-To: <199710162355.SAA21850@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@hiwaay.net" at "Oct 16, 97 06:55:07 pm"
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dkelly@hiwaay.net writes: That sounds like a good idea. Think my ISP has that rule implemented. When they added anti-spam rules to their sendmail it broke my FreeBSD SMTP which was configured badly anyhow. We've reached a compromise. They added nospam.hiwaay.net to their DNS, resolved to 127.0.0.1. I and others have used that name for our home systems. Some use it as their email address when posting to usenet. It resolves in DNS. Spammer tries to sent to it and spams their own postmaster. Or the unkowning forwarding host. Gee, why don't you just post with "dkelly@localhost.hiwaay.net"? It would have saved your poor admin the hard work of adding yet another useless entry in his DNS tables. It would be best to consider changes to the default sendmail configuration that will actually apply to most people, will be of the most help to them, and will break as little as possible. Anything else is just noise as far as this list is concerned. rone -- Ron Echeverri "What, me pithy?" +-+ Systems/Usenet Administration Mountain View ->b | Best Internet Communications, Inc. \ \ <rone@best.net> <URL:http://www.ennui.org/~rone/>; \_|
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