anti-spam for sendmail

Don Erickson derick at shark.zeni.net
Tue Apr 3 03:28:04 CDT 2001


In article <200104021753.f32HrXX30152 at marauder.illiana.net> you write:
>Question to the Quorum:
>
>Has anyone used any of the dns black-list features of sendmail 8.10 and above?

Yes, although I've set up sendmail 8.9.3 to use the rbl feature

>I'm thinking of implementing it on my mail server and am curious as to how 
>much real mail gets quashed by this feature.  

Some spam is caught, but not all.  It does cause an extra bit of lag to
check the sending ip against the dns at mail-abuse.org. 

>Also anyone brave enough to try
>sendmail 8.12 yet?  It doesn't run suidroot anymore....

I hadn't even heard about it yet.  

Regards,

-Don
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