RE: I can't reject spammers adresess using sendmail 8.9.3

[Kevin_Saenz dell com]

modifying /etc/mail/deny will not work what that file does is
rejects relay. 
Go to www.sendmail.org and read the file on rejecting spam
I haven't played with is as it is purely the user's fault
in getting the spam mail they give every tom dick and harry
their email address or even reply to messages in usenet
what would you expect making email addresses public knowledge?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel [mailto:evilgrendel gmx net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 March 2000 10:24
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: I can't reject spammers adresess using sendmail 8.9.3
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings, I wanted to test whether the antispam features of
> sendmail(v8.9.3) and fetchmail work so to exclude all mail from
> cybergold.com I did this, edited /etc/mail/deny (it was 
> empty) and added
> the line "cybergold.com REJECT" (without the quotes) and 
> saved it and then
> "makemap hash deny <deny" to create the deny.db file 
> afterwards even after
> restarting RH 6.0 I find that mail is _not_ rejected from 
> those domains.
> 
> But linuxconf shows that cybergold.com is a rejected sender. 
> So what could
> I be doing wrong or am I missing something? I even can't reject local
> users from my server.
> 
> I would really appreciate any help from all of you out there!
> Thanks in advance,
> Grendel
> 
> Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and 
> help me spread
> :)
> 
> 
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