From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 26 09:27:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA03021 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03011; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:27:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (FpdJUhkyRf3mBttc8HcAmfI5vjsmo3cm@greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07503; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:27:29 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (a7T8x0IYZVEad5k4I2Bj7aiyrz7a+7nz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00844; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:27:27 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Message-Id: <199711261727.TAA00844@greenpeace.grondar.za> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), jkh@time.cdrom.com, grog@lemis.com, chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:27:22 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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