From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 18:12:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25868 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25863 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:12:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id CAA15191 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 02:12:21 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:12:21 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock Reply-To: Michael Hancock To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Mail spam, sigh... In-Reply-To: <199711192028.MAA14215@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > Along this vein... I'd like to suggest adding the RBL support to the default > sendmail file (freebsd.mc). This way, all FreeBSD systems would, by > default, drop SMTP connections from the sites on the blacklist. > > I'd also like to add the anti-relay code to the file, but that's a bit > trickier, I'm afraid (too easy to get wrong and screw things up). > Spammers started using our sendmail 8.8.5 to relay "Enter the Zone" crap all over the world. It appears that many spammers are looking for relay hosts in asia. I setup 8.8.8 with the anti-relay stuff to quench this spam. Sigh, it does gives you more work because you have to manage a list of hosts or domains to grant them the right to relay mail. Mike