Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 27 17:06:36 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 09:45 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> On 06/27/2010 07:56 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> > On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> THANKS!  I have implemented the above recommendations
> >> as well as a few other advices in this posting.
> >>
> >> Thanks to all who participated - all very interesting to
> >> know how others have tackled the their spam issues.
> >>
> >> I will report how it all goes for me as I was getting at least
> >> 250 spam messages a day... it was getting on my nerves :/
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >   I hope this helps for you ... for me these + careful access controls
> > works well.
> >
> >
> >   A good access file, well managed is very helpful too ... for
> > blacklisting, for whitelisting, for 0s greet pause for known mx'ers etc.
> >
> >
> >   Hope you cut down some of your spam .. :-)
> >
> > gene
> >   
> It's a bit early, but so far, I have received two spams... pretty
> good so far, but I will report back in a couple more days...
> 
> I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that
> are recommending greylisting...  but have not said anything
> about how this is implemented into sendmail... so, what is
> your take on this?
----
you could actually do some research - information is easy to find

http://www.greylisting.org

Craig


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