From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 26 10:12:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05745 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05735 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id KAA12997; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: pat.groce@state.sd.us cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM HELP In-Reply-To: <5D2C95997022D21187350008C7F4CF7902EDFB@ESPR1SRV5> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 pat.groce@state.sd.us wrote: > Our freebsd box is currently being used for redirected spam messages. > Sometimes 6000-7000 messages a day! Any idea on how i can prevent this? > Is there a web page or other resource covering this topic? On > freebsd.org i found some stuff on filtering inbound spam but nothing on > this redirection problem. Upgrade your sendmail. sendmail 8.9.x turns off promiscuos relay by default. If you have 8.8 or above installed you can see how to set it up at http://www.beach.net/~dan Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message