On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Jim Dennis wrote:
jimd> > In addition to what has been previously suggested, modern
jimd> > sendmails can refuse SMTP connections on a sender or
jimd> > sender/recipient basis, so you may want to ask your ISP if they
jimd> > can do this for you. Then the offending mail would never even
jimd> > reach your ISP.
jimd> Despite the fact that this is a sendmail question
jimd> I'd be delighted if you would share the details of this
jimd> method with us (or me at least) or point me to which
jimd> 'm' I should 'f'ing (flippin') 'r' (so to speak).
Prior to the current sendmail 8.8 quite a bit of hackery was involved, I
believe. Now there is pretty good built-in support through check_*
rulesets, and these URLs show how to invoke it:
http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html
http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html
Best regards,
--
Rick Troxel Rick_Troxel(_at_)nih(_dot_)gov
rick(_at_)helix(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov
http://www.dc-sage.org/bios/rick_troxel 301/435-2983
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