Just a little note about these spam lists. Our server was placed on a list
because we had an 'open' relay. OK.. not the best thing in world, but
definitely not a felony. Because of the weight that this organization
carries, our service provider (PSI.net) gave us 48 hours to correct the
situation or we'd be fully cuttoff from eMail. Unfortunately, it was
extremely bad timing for our small business, and required an upgrade to our
mailserver. All in all we spent about 5 hours originally earmarked for a
client trying to make everyone happy. We still have no confirmation that
we've been removed from the spam list.
The moral of the story? Although these lists are a great idea at first
glance, they are run by organizations which are not accontable to any
governing agency. Relying on their lists means that you are potentially
going to block out innocent companies (like ours) who have never sent spam
and were only abused by one spammer, one time. There is no recourse and no
benefit of doubt given to the accused spammers.
Frank
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Nasir Ahmed wrote:
>
>> I am using sendmail 8.6 and facing a lot of problems related to
>> spamming. Can anyone advice / suggest me as to how does one handle
>> spamming in sendmail 8.6?
>>
>> Early response will be highly appreciated.
>
> One thing you can do is grab a list of known spammers domains and
> addresses from someplace like:
>
> http://www.webeasy.com:8080/spam/spam_download_table
>
> and then add them to:
>
> /etc/mail/access
>
> then update your access.db and restart sendmail.
>
> After that I would use procmail to filter keywords...
>
> ---Mike
>
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