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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:46:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Font <font@Mcs.Net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAIL FROM: address check commented out in /etc/mail additions?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980116114530.1445F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980115000327.11673A-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>

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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Font wrote:

> Playing around with some antispam/antirelay mechanisms on my new mail
> server, I added in the rulesets from /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.additions as
> well as the check_rcpt from http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html, but
> found that non-resolving MAIL FROM: domains weren't being rejected.  Upon
> closer examination I found that a line in sendmail.cf.additions had been
> commented out:
> 
> # R<?> $* < @ $+ >      $#error $: "451 Domain does not resolve"

The stuff in that file was from the active configuration from
hub.freebsd.org, and at the time 2.2.5 was released hub wasn't using that
rule since we were afraid that it would exclude a lot of people.  I think
jmb got fed up and enabled it though.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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