[cobalt-users] Re: SOLVED: Sendmail 8.9.3 and ORDB

[Peter Frederick <pfred@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:15:59 -0500, you wrote:

>
>I have been following this discussion for a while, and have search
>the archives... But I am still trying to figure-out how this works, does
>adding these lines slow down sendmail? 

probably a little bit - will your users notice? I doubt it.
Of your if you have a huge number of mailboxes YRMV

>Also do you have to have
>an agreement or sign-up to use relays.osirusoft.com, relays.ordb.org
>or relays.ordb.org

No for osirusoft or spamcop
not sure about relays.ordb.org - I think that is a pay for fee service

>
>Also how long does it take sendmail to check the email?

not long at all - it adds a DNS lookup to the process

>
>Bill
>
>At 03:55 PM 3/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>>Thanks to Parker, Peter, Tomislav, and others...I ended up making a backup
>>of sendmail.cf and manually edit sendmail.cf and included the following:
>>(above the "check SMTP" line --not sure if this matter or not...)
>>
>>There's nothing else needed to be done (DNS or otherwise) stop/start your
>>mail process to get the new sendmail.cf started.  If you run into problem,
>>simply copy your original sendmail.cf (ie. sendmail.cf_orig or such) back
>>to sendmail.cf and stop/start your sendmail.
>>
>># manually modified 3/19/03
>>
>># DNS based IP address spam list relays.osirusoft.com
>>R$*                     $: $&{client_addr}
>>R::ffff:$-.$-.$-.$-     $: <?> $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.relays.osirusoft.com. $: 
>>OK $)
>>R$-.$-.$-.$-            $: <?> $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.relays.osirusoft.com. $: 
>>OK $)
>>R<?>OK                  $: OKSOFAR
>>R<?>$+                  $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: Rejected - see 
>>http://relays.osirusoft.com/
>>
>># DNS based IP address spam list bl.spamcop.net
>>R$*                     $: $&{client_addr}
>>R::ffff:$-.$-.$-.$-     $: <?> $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.bl.spamcop.net. $: OK $)
>>R$-.$-.$-.$-            $: <?> $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.bl.spamcop.net. $: OK $)
>>R<?>OK                  $: OKSOFAR
>>R<?>$+                  $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "Spam blocked see 
>>http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?"$&{client_addr}
>>
>>
>># DNS based IP address spam list relays.ordb.org
>>R$*                     $: $&{client_addr}
>>R::ffff:$-.$-.$-.$-     $: <?> $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.relays.ordb.org. $: OK $)
>>R$-.$-.$-.$-            $: <?> $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.relays.ordb.org. $: OK $)
>>R<?>OK                  $: OKSOFAR
>>R<?>$+                  $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: Spam blocked see www.ordb.org
>>
>>
>>- Mike
>>
>>
>>---------- original message ----------
>>
>>I'm running sendmail 8.9.3 (not my preference) and am attempting to install
>>ORDB onto sendmail to prevent accepting mails from open relay mail server.
>>
>>Below is the instructions for sendmail 8.9
>>
>>http://www.ordb.org/faq/#usage_sendmail
>>
>>...there's a link to http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-89f.html#MAIL
>>
>>I'm a bit confuse, am I to edit my access_db file? ("access" in my case)
>>and put FEATURE(`rbl', `relays.ordb.org')dnl towards the very bottom of
>>the file? or does FEATURE(`rbl', `relays.ordb.org')dnl goes to some other
>>file in sendmail?
>>
>>Furthermore, where do I put "550 rejected" --towards the end of the line
>>FEATURE(`rbl', `relays.ordb.org')dnl "550 rejected"
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>- Mike
>>
>>PS - I've been to http://bluebird.sinauer.com/~morse/cobalt/dnsbl.html
>>      I don't have an .mc file --I think the .mc is for sendmail 8.10?
>>
>>
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