From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 00:18:19 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 4C70B16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 00:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (cromagnon.cullmail.com [67.33.58.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D88843D1F for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 00:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (localhost.cullmail.com [127.0.0.1]) i4F7M5fs079801; Sat, 15 May 2004 02:22:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by cromagnon.cullmail.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i4F7M3R6079787; Sat, 15 May 2004 02:22:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jamoore) From: Jay Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 02:21:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040515005503.GA9224@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20040515005503.GA9224@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405150221.59601.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: blacklist(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 07:18:19 -0000 On Friday 14 May 2004 07:55 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > Can anyone point me to the website that told how to set up > sendmail's FEATURE to use blacklists? There were at least > fourr blacklist sites. I've grep'd thru my ~/Mail directory, > can't find it? Most DNSBLs have a "how-to" page with sendmail configuration examples. The sendmail site itself is pretty clear on how to do this (www.sendmail.org) > Any thoughts on spamcop.com? I use it, and I feed my spam to it. I think their approach to blacklisting is pretty unique... it's not the "central authority" model, it's more like a "popular vote" model. Anyone can "vote" by feeding their spam to spamcop. Downside(s)?? 1) Their servers apparently get overloaded sometimes, and don't respond. This can lead to two things - both of which are bad: spam gets through if you don't defer good mail gets delayed if you do defer 2) There was some flack a few months ago about spamcop being bought by a "commercial" outfit. You can Google for the news on this Finally - www.DNSstuff.com, the "Spam database lookup" is a great source of comparison between all or most of the available blacklists. HTH, Jay > > tia, people, > > gary