From owner-freebsd-security Thu Feb 14 13:42:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from Mail.Math.Princeton.EDU (mail.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.18.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083A937B404 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:42:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from fine1008.math.princeton.edu (IDENT:root@fine1008.math.princeton.edu [128.112.16.123]) by Mail.Math.Princeton.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1ELgmF29932; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:42:48 -0500 Received: from fine1008.math.princeton.edu (stalker@localhost) by fine1008.math.princeton.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1ELgmF07423; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:42:48 -0500 Message-Id: <200202142142.g1ELgmF07423@fine1008.math.princeton.edu> To: Dave Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail ; bogus letters In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Dave message dated "Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:52:35 -0800." Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:42:48 -0500 From: John Stalker Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org procmail is what you want. see http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html for details. > > Some of my accounts are getting some spam (what else is new on the > internet?). However, the "from" addresses of these letters are not even > valid (as is with a lot of spam). In a couple of cases they are, but I > question the letter actually came from the sender listed. > > Is there something I can do in the sendmail.cf file or other configuration > change to drop these kinds of letters? Other solutions? > > I've thought of denying messages from free mail sites, but I imagine some > spam is from elsewhere. I would think it is possible to ditch bulkmail, I > know that yahoo.com has a bulkmail folder -- and I heard yahoo runs > FreeBSD too :) How are the letters discriminated from eachother as a bulk > versus a possible real one? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message