Nick, that FEATURE(rbl) is only if you have sendmail 8.9. I *think* that version is commercial. I would imagine that if you have it, the following commands owuld get you there: vi `locate sendmail.mc` # this assumes only one copy of the right file # on your computer -- if this worries you # then perhaps locate and vi should be two commands # :) Then add FEATURE(rbl) anywhere it would make sense -- I bet teh first line would make do, or perhaps search it for "FEATURE" -- there may be other FEATURES turned on as well.. add it near them, if there are. :) Then, re-run whatever command parses the .mc file into the sendmail.cf file. I don't know this command myself. I *think* it is m4. If, however, you have sendmail 8.8, then you could either download the rbl.m4 file and pout HACK(rbl) into your sendmail.mc file, or cut-n-paste the code from http://maps.vix.com/rbl/usage.html into your sendmail.cf. I think if you haven't touched your sendmail.cf much, cut-n-paste works fine. Of course, the sendmail book is a great place to start if you want to know what the snippet does. (sendmail.cf is located in /etc -- but not sendmail.mc...) After all that, please do test your RBL setup -- both from people you want to accept, and form people that you do not want to accept. A nice fellow has setup his machine to be in RBL so you can test by bouncing messages off his machine. http://maps.vix.com/rbl/usage.html I am far from a sendmail guru -- this here is just about my whole knowlege of the thing. :) when I offered to help, it was more along the lines of: from the full headers, figure out which computers sent the mail, and then contact the domain administrators for that domain, using info from whois -- and ifspam from that domain continues then email their upstream providers, complaining the whole time about RBL. Do be nic to them, but make it obvious you mean business. The amount of spam I get these days is pretty small, despite newsgroup postings, maillist postings, it is on my webpage which is indexed in the engines (I put it there to help propogation of my resume :) -- and the amount of spam I get in a month is less than the error mailings I get from suse-security (such as that guy that doesn't exist in agulla.wherever, or people that setup vacation improperly, etc...) whenever I post. So I figure I must be doing something right. :) On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:56:44PM -0400, Nick Zentena wrote:
Seth R Arnold wrote:
-- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/
Well you offered-) I can't figure out where to put the FEATURE(rbl) statement.
Thanks Nick
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