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Re: [cobalt-developers] Adding spam blacklists to sendmail on a Cobalt server



Bob,
I added the features on the wrong place. after placing them on the bottom of the list the warning was away

Johan

Bob G wrote:

You're right, I had a typo in there, sorry. :)

Where exactly are you seeing the "Warning dangerous permissions" error?

Also, I specifically UN-recommend using Spamcop as a blacklist.
(1) it's too aggressive
(2) it's not always up, and when it's down your mail server could fail
(3) spamcop themselves says not to use it in a production environemnt.

But the rest of them, sure. Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of java
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:35 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Adding spam blacklists to sendmail on a
Cobalt server


So, now I've had it with spam and followed your directions. everything goes wel except for the cd /etc/sendmail, should be cd /etc/mail :-( .

But I had als this annoying WARNING dangerous write permissions. Is that

normal??

Johan

ISPGuru wrote:

I sent in a query about this a little while ago, but accidentally sent it from an unsubscribed address, so it will probably arrive AFTER I researched, found the answer to my question, and implemented and tested. Go figure.

I have tried this on both a RaQ4 and a RaQ550 at current patchlevels. Adding these blacklists made a HUGE difference in the amount of spam arriving at the server.



cd /usr/lib/sendmail-cf
vi cf/cobalt.mc
add the following lines (or those of your own choosing, if you have researched the issue) to the FEATURE section

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`relays.ordb.org', `Rejected - see http://ordb.org/')dnl

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`bl.spamcop.net',`Rejected - see http://spamcop.net/')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`sbl.spamhaus.org',`Rejected -

see http://spamhaus.org/')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`blackholes.mail-abuse.org',`Rejected - see
http://mail-abuse.org/')dnl

m4 cf/cobalt.mc >/etc/mail/spamblock.cf

Then go to the /etc/mail directory and backup and copy over the sendmail.cf file:

cd /etc/sendmail
mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.orig
cp spamblock.cf sendmail.cf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart






Bob German
ISPGuru.com


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