Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:27:22 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), jkh@time.cdrom.com, grog@lemis.com, chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? Message-ID: <199711261727.TAA00844@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > Mark Murray wrote: > > > > By far the mest method is Paul Vixies RBL (Realtime Blackhole List). See > > http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ - There are some sendmail rules that work > > really well. The cool thing is that DNS outages are failsafe. > > well......i have installed this on hub.freebsd.org, rou > mailing list mail server, and have yet to see it block > single message. now it is the last check before allowing > the mail thru, so it seems that we are catching everything > in RBL before we query RBL. The stuff in FreeBSD's sendmail rules workds well, no doubt about that, but it is not failsafe. If your DNS is a bit slow, you can lose mail. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org
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