Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3i - Sendmail upgrade, general

["Mike's List" <mikelist@xxxxxxx>]

Try http://bluebird.sinauer.com/~morse/cobalt/dnsbl.html
...and see if this will help you.


- Mike

PS - Sorry for all the top posts guys *bad* habit but scrolling down
     takes too long :)

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Dave Reid wrote:

> Hi All;
> 
> I have a some questions and a request resulting form a major meltdown
> with our SMTP and SPAM! We were getting so many spam's relaying through
> it was shutting down our SMTP server, this was a result of having added
> yahoo.com and yahoo.ca to the allowed Relays because of some serious
> whining from a couple of clients who had friends using a yahoo email
> address. It took me a little while to figure out the cause, I knew it
> was spam killing the server but did not know what to do about it, I
> tried updating sendmail, blocking out huge blocks of IP #'s manually in
> the hosts.deny file, but nothing worked until I removed yahoo.com and
> yahoo.ca from the allowed relay section.
> 
> Questions & Requests
> ====================
> 
> 1) Is there a problem with the way SMTP is functioning on our server.
> >From the day I set up the server I have had to add any domain I wanted
> to send email to into the Relay section of the email setup on the Cobalt
> GUI. For example if I wanted to send an email to dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I
> had to add microsoft.com to the Relay box in the email properties under
> the control panel in the GUI. Is this the way it is supposed to work? I
> have always thought this was not quite right, but other cobalt owners
> indicated that's just the way it is on a RaQ. If that entry is not there
> I get a relaying denied error (error 550). But really, I am not trying
> to relay from a 3rd party, I am just trying to send an email to an
> outside address though a domain hosted on our server.
> 
> 2) I have the sendmail 8.9.3 package released by Package master for the
> Cobalt Raq3 installed, and would like to upgrade to the sendmail 8.12.8
> directly from sendmail.org. Is there any known problems doing this
> upgrade on the RaQ3i. Port sentry and the utility that sends me
> incremental reports form the log files generated by Port Sentry are the
> only command line packages installed on this box, Additionally I have
> all the latest updates from Sun, and also have the latest Webalizer from
> package master as well as the latest PHP pkg and an older pkg of MySQL
> installed.
> 
> 3) I have been in computers for a long time (20+ years) and have managed
> a cobalt server of some sort since  1999, although I fairly comfortable
> going in with SSH and doing command line maintenance, and I have
> installed the occasional thing the hard way (not using the GUI), such as
> Port Sentry, I have not yet tried to update over an existing cobalt .pkg
> with a command line installation. Is there someone that would be kind
> enough to provide instructions or a link to instructions that will take
> me right from unzipping the package (yea, yea, I know - Gzip or Tarball
> or whatever it is - forgive and old Dos / Windoze guy :->) and
> subsequently installing the new 8.12.8 sendmail over the
> sendmail-8.9.3.pkg from package master. We host over 100 domains and I
> am just totally paranoid about crashing sendmail, which is why I am
> coming to the group for assistance. I could probably muddle my way
> through, but I just don't want to take a chance on missing something.
> 
> 4) After updating I intend to set up sendmail to use the black hole
> lists out there starting with the one from mail-abuse.org, I have also
> seen some traffic regarding some other ones that some of you are using
> as well, which I will likely use as well. Any hints or advice regarding
> this would be appreciated.
> 
> thank you in advance for considering my plea :-)
> 
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