From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 23:15:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA25686 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA25675; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:15:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gpalmer@orion.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id CAA21293; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:15:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id CAA17091; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:15:01 -0500 (EST) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , chat@hub.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: major push by spammers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:10:44 PST." <18179.880528244@time.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:15:01 -0500 Message-ID: <17085.880528501@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "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