From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 25 09:54:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19746 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 09:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19734; Mon, 25 May 1998 09:54:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04979; Mon, 25 May 1998 09:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:54:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Alex Povolotsky cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 In-Reply-To: <199805250546.JAA21636@minas-tirith.pol.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 May 1998, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Hello! > > Has anyone checked this new version? It is claimed to be more spam-proof. Definitely is that, though you can get most of the way there with 8.8.8 and various non-distribution rules. The single most important change is that in 8.9, relaying is off by default, and you can choose several ways to decide what you relay. By IP address, by domain, by HELO, by MX records, etc. It also includes dropin rules for RBL, DNS checking, and regex matches. I'm not sure how the DNS checking works, it seems to have some way of saying "temp failure if we traced to a DNS server that wasn't responding" and "permanant failure if we traced to a DNS dead end." All in all, I'm upgrading our machines as soon as it seems stable enough for production use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message