From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 00:19:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12472 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12465 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 07:19:12 GMT (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25769; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:48:50 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA02246; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:48:44 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980414164844.I1870@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:48:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeff & Hillary Jones , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: domain resolve for email References: <199804140638.BAA07205@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199804140638.BAA07205@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>; from Jeff & Hillary Jones on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 01:38:07AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 1:38:07 -0500, Jeff & Hillary Jones wrote: > another newbie question... > > I would like to know how to make it so my email accounts > do not get mail from unresolveable hosts just like > this list. > > all i know is it probably has to be done in sendmail.cf > but i need the code for the change. I'm no longer sure that this is a good idea. Over the last couple of days I have set up a mailing list, and I find that a large number of legitimate users have transient problems in their reverse lookup (not their fault, nor of anybody in their domain). The result is that mail to or from them bounces. I've taken mine out as a result. There are lots of pointers to anti-spam stuff. Check out http://www.sendmail.org/ for the most authentic. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message