From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 23:20:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA26016 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:20:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26004; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA18317; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:20:19 -0800 (PST) To: "Gary Palmer" cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:15:01 EST." <17085.880528501@orion.webspan.net> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:20:19 -0800 Message-ID: <18314.880528819@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hmmm. What would be a better code if one simply wished to toss it away? And I wonder if running a caching named on mail.freebsd.org wouldn't perhaps be a good idea, if only to avoid the scenario of temporary DNS outtages. Would it even help? Jordan > "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