Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:25:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Andreas Wideroe Andersen <awa@pragma.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNSBL settings problems in Sendmail ? Message-ID: <20030411181842.K8294@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <25927218e1.218e125927@pragma.no> References: <25927218e1.218e125927@pragma.no>
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> > 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
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