[BlueOnyx:14792] Re: lots of spam

[wcstaff at webcoast.com]

> 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
> _______________________________________________
I checked senmail.cf and there is nothing there. But sendmail.mc has them
listed, which is where the GUI puts them when you add them.
Tom