[BlueOnyx:06632] Re: OWM and Spam

[Darrell D. Mobley]

Bump again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:50 AM
> To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06581] Re: OWM and Spam
> 
> Bump!  Specifically:
> 
> I looked in the GUI for the email server and there are no RBLs defined,
> and on the advanced tab, POP Authenticated Relaying is checked, but Enable
> delay_checks is not checked.  What sendmail.mc file is BX using or is it
> writing straight to sendmail.cf?
> 
> I manually edited my sendmail.mc to turn delay_checks on, disable
> greet_pause and enable zen.spamhaus.org and bl.spamcop.net, made my
> sendmail.cf and it works.  I wonder if I made changes in the GUI if it,
> because it's not picking up my changes to sendmail.mc, would wipe out my
> changes?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> > On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 5:43 PM
> > To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
> > Subject: [BlueOnyx:06509] Re: OWM and Spam
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
> bounces at blueonyx.it]
> > > On Behalf Of Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 3:53 PM
> > > To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> > > Subject: [BlueOnyx:06506] Re: OWM and Spam
> > >
> > > zen includes dynamic IPs.
> > >
> > > It's good to block dynamic IP addresses as that will get rid of a lot
> of
> > spam.
> >
> > Yes, I found that out when some of my mails get returned, I have to turn
> > around and resend them via my cable email account or forget it.  But on
> to
> > what you post below:
> >
> > > One easy way to allow your users to send is to enable the poprelay,
> then
> > > edit the sendmail.cf
> >
> > You can get Sendmail to check a user's credentials before bouncing their
> > outbound mail by using:
> >
> > FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend')dnl
> >
> > And commenting out:
> >
> > dnl FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1000')dnl
> >
> > What I am trying to address is inbound spam.  Funny, now that Chris
> > mentions
> > it, I looked in the GUI for the email server and there are no RBLs
> > defined,
> > and on the advanced tab, POP Authenticated Relaying is checked, but
> Enable
> > delay_checks is not checked.  What sendmail.mc file is BX using or is it
> > writing straight to sendmail.cf?
> >
> > I manually edited my sendmail.mc to turn delay_checks on, disable
> > greet_pause and enable zen.spamhaus.org and bl.spamcop.net, made my
> > sendmail.cf and it works.  I wonder if I made changes in the GUI if it,
> > because it's not picking up my changes to sendmail.mc, would wipe out my
> > changes?
> >
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