From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 17:26:02 2003 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 8750A37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094D443FAF for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3C0PxBn008415; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:25:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id h3C0Pxfh008412; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:25:59 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:25:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Andreas Wideroe Andersen In-Reply-To: <25927218e1.218e125927@pragma.no> Message-ID: <20030411181842.K8294@wonkity.com> References: <25927218e1.218e125927@pragma.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "rob.c" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNSBL settings problems in Sendmail ? 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: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:26:02 -0000 On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Warren Block > Date: Friday, April 11, 2003 4:13 pm > Subject: Re: DNSBL settings problems in Sendmail ? > > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, rob.c wrote: > > > > > DNSBL settings problems in Sendmail ? I did not write that. Please check your quoting. > According to my experiences, yes there are problems. I had this problem > for one day on both of my servers running FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 > RC. One day both stopped. I didn't know why and I get lots of did not > issue errors in my /var/log/maillog. I removed all dnsbl's from the mc > file, recompiled and installed the file into a cf file and the problems > were gone, That has not been my experience; it's worked fine for me for well over a year. Maybe one of the DNSBLs you were using had problems. > but the spam was soon filling up my mailboxes. This actually > led me to install and configure spamassassin which works very well > indeed. But only after the spam has already been received. DNSBLs can stop it before the bandwidth has been stolen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA