Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

[jack craig]

On 06/25/2010 02:46 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers
> of the offending email spammmers and add these respective
> IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file,
> but I am beginning to suspect that these headers could be
> easily spoofed with bogus entries, right?
>
> I am really getting tired of adding in entries into the access
> file, and writing email filters (in thunderbird) for patterns
> dumping spammers into the trash - and yet - I am still forced
> to review the trash for entries that should not have been trashed.
> Seems like a real chore and a losing proposition...
>
> What do admins of sendmail use, besides spamassasin?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>    
one approach is to use the black hole filters, confgure them for sendmail
and that will catch a lot of bad addresses..

http://tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x15291.html   (see 1.8.8.4.1. The Real-time 
Blackhole List)

hth, ...

-- 
Jack Craig
Software Engineer
831.461.7100 x120
www.extraview.com

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