Subject: Re: Would like sendmail local_eoh to be overridden by access map..
To: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@snew.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/04/2002 12:59:28
WHy I add a header. procmail catches the header and dumps it into
likelyspam/norelay
Every month, I get 4 or 5 important messages in there.
Never edit the cf. Edit the m4 and build the cf.
Quoting kpneal@pobox.com (kpneal@pobox.com):
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:11:29PM -0700, sudog@sudog.com wrote:
> > > Better on comp.mail.sendmail, but several bad ideas here
> > >
> > > FORGED:
> > > perfectly legal, also common on fine mail. My machine
> > > introduces itself as the inside interface. (EHLO
> > > inside.domain.com) Not illegal but will show up as forged.
>
>
> > > TEMP: can't resolve for now but you send a 550. Use a 4xx error back.
> >
> > This should probably be a 4xx.
>
> I hate this. The only mail I ever get where the reverse DNS lookup
> fails are from spammers sending email from cable modems. I hate having
> to edit the sendmail.cf file by hand, but I hate more watching a spam
> hit my server dozens of times over several days before it times out.
> --
> "A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of
> invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ...
> in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way
> fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"