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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Mail spam, sigh...
To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 06:43:08 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199711192028.MAA14215@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Nov 19, 97 12:28:03 pm
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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).
> 

	see /etc/mail/{README,sendmail.cf.additions,Makefile}.
	(both 2.2.5-RELEASE and -current)

	i will commit RBL support in the near future.
	we are using it on hub.freebsd.org, in addition to the 
	check performed by /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.additions.

	RBL has yet to block any spam, the other checks seem to 
	get all first.
jmb