Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[hub.freebsd.org now blocking IP adresses on the DUL]
> If you use your ISP's mailer as a "smarthost", you will avoid this
> problem.
>
> Thos of us in the anti-spam community think thsat this is a Good
> Thing.
That's one way to cut down on support mail from new users, I suppose.
This is yet another feel-good measure that will end up doing at least
as much harm as good.
At a minimum the default freebsd.mc needs something like the attached
patch. Something prominent in the FAQ and support for defining
SMART_HOST in sysinstall is probably called for as well.
--- freebsd.mc.orig Sun Feb 28 14:52:06 1999
+++ freebsd.mc Thu Sep 23 16:31:33 1999
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
dnl Uncomment to activate Realtime Blackhole List (recommended!)
dnl FEATURE(rbl)dnl
+dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately
+dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')dnl
FEATURE(local_lmtp)dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS', LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS`'P)dnl
define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw')dnl
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