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Jordan K. Hubbard 1999-05-01 03:36:07 +00:00
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# $Id:$
# $Id: README,v 1.5 1998/09/02 01:34:57 brian Exp $
Filtering out SPAM from your site
@ -14,18 +14,10 @@ usernames (such as investor and success). We do not accept mail
from any machine that matches a entry in either database, or users
in the fakenames database.
WARNING: We do not maintain the database source files.
Read domain.txt and ips.txt.
(Make will fetch them for you)
Domains that you want to allow, should be added
to the file /etc/mail/allowed_domains.txt.
IP addresses that you want to allow, should be added
to the file /etc/mail/allowed_ips.txt.
Filtering at your site:
To filter spam at your site you need to:
1. modify your /etc/sendmail.cf,
2. retrieve the database source files from the master site,
2. create a list of domains/ips you wish to block
3. make the databases and
4. finally signal sendmail that the configuration file has changed.
@ -35,22 +27,7 @@ in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.additions to your .mc file. If you do
not use m4 to generate your /etc/sendmail.cf, add the database
declarations to your /etc/sendmail.cf.
2. Fetching the database source files:
The database source files are available from Gulf Coast
Internet via anonymous FTP. The Makefile in /etc/mail will retreive
the source files for you: as root, type "cd /etc/mail; make" at
the command line. The previous version of the database source
files is moved to <filename>.0.
Local additions should be kept in separate files. We use
spamsites.local and denyip.local. You may want to diff the new
versions of the files against the previous versions to see what
has changed.
Local deletions should be kept in separate files. We use
allowed_domain.txt and allowed_ips.txt. (This feature was added
after netcom.com was added to the spam block list.)
2. Put the list of domains you wish to block in /etc/mail/spamsites
3. Make the databases:
As root, type "cd /etc/mail; make install" will build the