[cobalt-users] Re:MAPS RBL Useage

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:44 AM -0400 9/29/01, Franklin S. Werren is rumored to have typed:

> Somewhere someone sent me a step by step instruction on how to add
> the MAPS RBL to my Qube 2, Qube 3 and Raq 4....
> http://mail-abuse.org/

   Search the archives using the keywords "sendmail configuration using m4 on
a Cobalt" (or some subset of the above); should take you to my step-by-step
written for a RaQ3 (but usable, with minor changes, for any other Cobalt
appliance).

   And Dan's absolutely right - MAPS requires you to sign a draconian
contract that the database they did not build (we did) is owned exclusively
by them, and you may not discuss the contents of that database without their
express permission. So I hardly recommend them for use; I use relays.ordb.org
myself, but there are bunches of other blackhole lists which do not require
you to sign contracts. (Remember, too, that most of those of us who built the
MAPS databases over the years are no longer submitting open relays or RBL
nominations, so their database is rapidly becoming useless, anyway.)

   I _disagree_ respectfully with Dan that some silly .pkg is needed, since
this is simply a matter of configuring sendmail. You don't need some
simplistic cobalt-written-and-controlled system that installs anything since
everything you need is already there - you only need to spend some time at
www.sendmail.org reading the information they supply on how to configure
sendmail, and understanding how Cobalt snuck the .m4 file out of the way so
as not to confuse us. (Remember, they tend to get nervous if we so much as
use a shell.) And if you want to do anything serious with sendmail, as a
systems administrator you _should_ know a little about it, yes?

         Charlie (who's probably given more strong opinions in this
                   post than he usually gives in a week or two)