From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 13:39:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA01023 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA01008 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (tc-if2-17.ida.net [208.141.171.74]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA23804 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:39:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:39:05 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail spam, sigh... In-Reply-To: <199711192028.MAA14215@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > Along this vein... I'd like to suggest adding the RBL support to the default > sendmail file (freebsd.mc). This way, all FreeBSD systems would, by > default, drop SMTP connections from the sites on the blacklist. > > I'd also like to add the anti-relay code to the file, but that's a bit > trickier, I'm afraid (too easy to get wrong and screw things up). > Would this cause problems for home networks which are only intermittently connected to the network? Charles Mott