From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 9:55:19 2003 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 18BA737B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-64-182.maa.sify.net [210.214.64.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFD143F93 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:55:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) Received: by dhumketu.homeunix.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B300C549; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:17:17 +0530 (IST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:17:17 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail - blackhole da spam? Message-ID: <20030301174717.GA2983@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Warwick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Hmmm... I dunno X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +++ Steve Warwick [freebsd] [28-02-03 11:36 -0800]: | Hey All, | | I seem to be getting more spam lately and in an effort to protect my clients | I use a catch all in the the virtuser table | | @domain-name.ext error:nouser | | However, this is resulting in more traffic as the spam needs to be bounced | back out, to a server that refuses the mail and so on. | | Question is: is it possible to send catch all mail to a blackhole? dev/null | for example | | | Thanks | | Steve | | ------------------------------ you can use mail/access file to deny mail from certain domains. also rbl (eg ordb) can be use to reduce spam. Regards, Shantanu -- Everyone is a genius. It's just that some people are too stupid to realize it. PGP keyID : 137AFD9E PGP keyID fingerprint : C7DA 3350 1DEA F371 37DC D92A F0D4 C2ED 137A FD9E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message