Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:15:01 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? Message-ID: <17085.880528501@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:10:44 PST." <18179.880528244@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote in message ID <18179.880528244@time.cdrom.com>: > > Are you sending the temp fail return code? If so, then a lot of them > > will be repeat sends of the same spam. > > I'm using the standard checks in /usr/src/etc/mail/sendmail.cf.additions - it > *looks* like a proper failure is generated on a reject, but I'm not > enough of a sendmail god to know for sure. 451 is a temporary error code. It allows the mail to be retried later incase of DNS failures or net splits to cause a valid DNS entry to become unavailable. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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