From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 12:27:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA21469 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from nemesis.idirect.com (root@nemesis.idirect.com [207.136.80.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA21455 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlixfeld@idirect.com) Received: from thor.idirect.com (jlixfeld@thor.idirect.com [207.136.80.105]) by nemesis.idirect.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA03380; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:27:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (jlixfeld@localhost) by thor.idirect.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA22196; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:27:16 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: thor.idirect.com: jlixfeld owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:27:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Lixfeld To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Spam from www.sendmail.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Okay, I have added the two patches (domain must resolve, and no non-local relaying) and am noticing some crazyness.. first off, I'm trying to send a message through pine, and am getting this error: [Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 hash map "spammers": unsafe map file] Uhmm.. why?! :) On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > > Reading up on the anti-spam measures via the rulesets for sendmail.cf, I'm > > confused as to wether or not these measures apply to servers (local hubs) > > or relays only or do these measures apply to both?! > > They apply to everyone, including local workstations. They certainly > should be placed on hubs and relays. This keeps spammers from using your > relays as their relays. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >