On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:27:51AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> Richard Ames wrote:
> >
> > I tend to think the book is OBE (Overcome by Events) ... can't keep up with
> > the pace of change of the SW.
> >
> > I think http://www.orbs.org/sendmail893.txt or the M4 equivalent is what I
> > am looking for... rejects the connection if the sender is a open relay or a
> > dialup sender. I have tried to make it work but havn't got there yet....
>
> Orbs and Mail-Relay are a pack of thugs and only used by morons without
> a brain.
>
> All these lists do is provide a list of places that cen be used by
> spammers.
How? They don't provide lists for anyone. All you can do is checkk via
dns wether they think a host is an open relay. Something you could do yourself
albight slightly more slowly by connecting to the machine itself.
>
> Their sole justification is a puritan morality that has faulty logic and
> causes more damage than it prevents.
I disagree. Orbs takes thngs a little bit too far and yes I don't like them
either.
RBL on the other hand is a different matter. They will only list a mail sevrer if it
is an open relay
ie it is open for abuse. They also send the admin a whole heap of emails saying please
fix and here are instructions how.
The whole problem is of course that unless everyone uses rbl then it's pretty
much a
waste of time.
> Most of the spam I receive now comes from people subscribed to these
> lists. So that is why I need to run my own blacklist.
That's fair enough, Anyway two easy solutions to this problem.
a) procmail
b) add email address to /etc/mail/access like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] REJECT
well not quite like that :)
and in you're mc file you'll need
FEATURE(access_db)
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John
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