[Cialug] Hijack This! (Equivalent on Linux?)

[Andrew Lietzow]

david l goodrich wrote:
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i use the sbl-xbl blocklist from spamhaus on my mailserver with great 
effect.  for the sendmailers out there, put this in your .mc:

dnl sbl-xbl from spamhaus
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org',
    `"571 ACCESS DENIED to <"$&f"> thru "$&{client_name}"
    by /spamhaus/ ;Please see http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/'")dnl

and rebuild your sendmail.cf
... i'm not the only person that still uses sendmail, am i?  :]
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Dear David/(or Waldo?),
No, you're not the only one who uses sendmail.  There are at least two 
of us left on the planet. 

Thanks for the tip.  I inserted this into my sendmail.mc file, ran  ...  
m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf ..., restarted sendmail and ... it 
restarted okay but ... it stopped receiving mail!   Yikes!  Fortunately, 
this was one of those rare moments when I had my wits about me and I had 
made a backup before engaging.  

Syntax error?   Is there a comma after the first line?   Perhaps I need 
to make sure the command is all on one line?   (no duh).  Sure.  Maybe 
that's it.   (I'm really not a sendmail expert, and have been trying not 
to become one for five years now.  If these spamming idiots would cease 
and desist, I could get back to my original objective -- to actually USE 
the software instead of maintaining it!    

Anyhow, I'll double check my syntax and maybe you could make sure it is 
100% correct.   P.S.  The good news is that many spammers appear to be 
so efficient that they don't work on the weekends?! 

TIA,
Andrew L.


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