Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <twe-suse.e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, William just had to get this off his chest:

> Hi,
> 
> I'am running SuSe Linux 7.1. I use sendmail as a mailserver for several mailboxes.
> I try to get spam filtering to work, but uptill now all this failed to work. I try
> to use a realtime block list of spamcop. I followed instructions on the spamcop site
> to configure /etc/mail/linux.mc and than build my own /etc/sendmail.cf. 
> In /etc/sendmail.cf indeed apears the spamcop list but it looks to me, that sendmail
> totally does not look at the spamcop blacklist. I also looked at all log files to see
> if there apear spamcop. Does anyone know how to do this, as I have the impression that
> the sendmail.cf file is specific made for SuSe only, and is not the original setup of
> sendmail.
> 
> Any help, suggestions welcome

A bit late, but there you go. Fire up ethereal on the network
interface that sendmail talks to. It should show DNS requests going
out to the RBLDNS sites you configured (or not, if it wasn't
configured right).
If you want a solution that is both simple and powerfull have a look
at Postfix. No hassle with cryptic sendmail.cf like files, but a
straightforward human readable config file. E.g. the blocklist setup
for Postfix:
maps_rbl_domains =
   dynablock.wirehub.net,
   blackholes.wirehub.net,
   relays.ordb.org,
   [..]

smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
   permit_mynetworks,
   [..]
   reject_maps_rbl,
   permit

That's all, couldn't be simpeler.

Theo
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