Re: [cobalt-users] How can I configure Raq4 mail to use blacklists?

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> I would like to configure Sendmail to use a couple of blacklists in order
to
> reduce the amount of spam received. I found some instructions at
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2003-April/039145.html
which
> involved modifying the file cobalt.mc by adding a couple of FEATURE
commands,
> recompiling it with m4 and using the result to replace the sendmail.cf
file.
>
> I tried this and it did reduce the amount of spam quite a lot.
Unfortunately, it
> also killed all the mailing lists on my server. Anyone posting a message
to any
> of the mailing lists got a 550 "unknown user" response. So I reverted to
my
> original sendmail.cf file.
>
> I guess this means that the original sendmail.cf file was not derived from
> cobalt.mc.

yes it is

> The new sendmail.cf was actually shorter than the old one, so I guess
> the old one must have some extra stuff to handle mailing lists correctly.
> Does anyone know how a solution? Maybe one of:
<snip>
> All solutions gratefully received!
> David Crocker

yep.. go here http://cfbuilder.zeffie.com/ and make a new sendmail.cf

Zeffie
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