Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

[jack craig]

On 06/25/2010 04:20 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 04:11 PM, jack craig wrote:
>>
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>> On 06/25/2010 03:56 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>> On 06/25/2010 02:57 PM, jack craig wrote:
>>>>
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>>>> 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  
>>> Hmm...  I reviewed this, added the FEATURE entry but
>>> unfortunately it is missing the corresponding mc file:
>>>
>>> m4:sendmail.mc:198: cannot open 
>>> `/usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature/rbl.m4': No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Where can I get this mc file, do you know?
>>>
>> try 'yum install sendmail-cf'   ???
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jack Craig
>> Software Engineer
>> 831.461.7100 x120
>> www.extraview.com  
> Yeah, I did that and it does not contain that file.  For
> fun, I tried yum install rbl.m4, no dice.  I have 8.14.x
> so that's fairly "new" for F9...
>
> Guess I will have to scan the Internet for that file...
>
you might try...

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html

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

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