From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 16 13:14:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5279416A4CE for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 13:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD8043D54 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 13:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4GKERiQ022240; Sun, 16 May 2004 13:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i4GKEQra009601; Sun, 16 May 2004 13:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.11/Submit) id i4GKEPGO009600; Sun, 16 May 2004 13:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:14:25 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20040516201425.GB9464@tao.thought.org> References: <20040515005503.GA9224@tao.thought.org> <40A579DA.7070404@mac.com> <20040516022518.GB70076@tao.thought.org> <40A77452.6050105@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40A77452.6050105@mac.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: blacklist(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:14:32 -0000 On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:01:54AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:00:58PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >>According to the RFCs, one MUST NOT bounce mail sent to postmaster. > >>One ought to read the rfc-ignorant.org site I mentioned. > [ ... ] > > Well, bit again. The line in my access file was > > > > 206.46 550 Verizon email not wanted here > > > > that I've commented out. This isn't the first time I've had > > to fine tune; it probably won't be the last. Apologies! > > Consider using FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend') and add the following to > the access map: > > Spam:abuse@ FRIEND > Spam:postmaster@ FRIEND > > [ Pre 8.12 versions of sendmail use To: instead ] > > ...which will allow you to block mail as you please using IP or other > reject rules, yet not prevent delivery of mail to postmaster and abuse... > Outstanding idea, at least it seems. This site has all the details: http://www.technoids.org/spamlovers.html I think that most email to postmaster should be allowed, any everything to abuse. thanks for the tip! (and a tip of the hat), gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix