From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 21: 8: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97BC37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B5F43EE8 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gBK57r839217; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id gBK57qH8063365; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:07:51 -0800 From: Gary D Kline To: Warren Block Cc: Gary D Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: /etc/mail/access list to DENY spam? Message-ID: <20021220050751.GB63184@tao.thought.org> References: <20021220021145.GA62969@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:03:48PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: > > > Several weeks ago someone posted the location of a spam > > list for sendmail's /etc/mail/access file. I understand > > the file was large... but that makes no difference! I'd > > just like to filter out most of the spam I've been getting. > > > > Does anybody know where that sample access lst was? > > I posted a link to mine quite some time back. Just now I updated it: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/access > > Beware, it's draconic. But everything in there is a place from which > I've received spam. Oh, and this is *in addition to* using the > relays.osirusoft.com DNSBL combination list, which includes SPEWS and > many others. Please do not use this file without studying it and > probably modifying it first. > > PS: thanks for giving me credit on that little Perl CIDR script on > daemonnews--but could you fix the text which says that 255.255.0.0 is > /8 (should be /16)? I tried to send you email, but it bounced. > The mail bounce was due to change-ISP-HELL; all the miscellany that I screwed up on. (I'm grateful for this list and the help gleened from the good people here!) Please do re-send your mail and I get in touch with DN.org for the fix. --I've got to write a piece for the Jan issue... *soon*-- Draconic is fine; I'd like to blackhole every spammer ever whelped. I do have a 900-line list of my own IP's that was fairly effective. When I was fighting alligators with my DNS and secondary and ISP and sendmail, I pitched my access file ... It's backed up somewhere, but figured the one you mentioned might be more effective. Or as-effective. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message