Re: [cobalt-developers] Third party tools to block spam?

[Harald Kapper <hk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi
probably simple minded, but.. there's sendmail on the raq and this provides you with lots of anti-spam-methods - especiall when using blackholefilters, etc.

we patched raq2-boxes with sendmail 8.11.6 (ok, can't really go to 8.12 because you need this auto-rebuild-db-feature dropped in 8.12.x and finally didn't find the point in the gui where to add a hook to the "newaliases"-call of sendmail to manually rebuild the alias-db.

but originally also with (out of the box) sendmail 8.9.3 (raq2) and 8.10.2 (raq4+qube3) (don't know for raq3, sorry) you can easily reuse the cobalt.mc / redhat.mc files to make yourself a new sendmail.cf (but be aware of several cobalt-hacks, especially on raq2) and please backup your files before implemention your new features for spam-blocking.

when i got time i'll try to write a how-to (or maybe try a pkg), but give me time if you need this.

hth
hk

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:38:18 -0500, "Anne Shroeder" <anne@xxxxxxxx> wrote to <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>Aside from using the option "Reject the following Users/Hosts/Domains", are
>there any third party tools this group knows of to do a better job of
>filtering spam *before* we know what IP it is coming from?  We just had a
>terrible porno message go out to our entire advisory council and I expect my
>head to be on the platter shortly if I don't find a solution....