[BlueOnyx:14791] Re: lots of spam

[Ken Marcus]

On 2/27/2014 2:33 PM, wcstaff wrote:
> Maurice de Laat <mdlaat at ...> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:24:27PM +0000, wcstaff wrote:
>>
>>> Before the last major YUM update, we were blocking about 80% of spam.
> After
>>> the major YUM update, we have been experiencing tons of spam getting
>>> through. We have not been able to stop it. Everything is working as it
>>> should. Is anyone experiencing the same thing? And what are options to
> stop
>>> or slow it down.
>> Have you defined blacklists in the gui? If so, you might want to disable
>> and enable them one by one, to be sure that they are active. In some
> cases



>> of the updates, the blacklists were disabled by accident even the gui
>> shows them as enabled.
>
> Thanks for the reply. Yes I de-activated and re-activated, as well as tried
> different filters and order. tailing the maillog  shows spam is being
> caught by some of the blacklists. I'm wondering if there has been a new
> implementation for spammers to get around the blacklists.
>
>

Check the sendmail.cf to make sure the blacklist is there.
e.g.
cat /etc/mail/sendmail.cf | grep spamhaus


Ken Marcus