[KLUG Members] using sendmail to block spam

[Adam Williams]

>Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com> wrote:
>>>From the web page:
>>"First apply _this_patch_ to the source."
>>Where "this patch" is a link to:  
>>http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/sendmail-8.11.6.patch
>>Which looks like a source code patch to me.

Hardly the latest version of sendmail.  And if somebody can't see to
block SPAM using sendmail rules (which are POWERFUL!) or at least a
milter (standard method, doesn't directly effect the MDA), but needs to
modify the build sequence?!  They don't have a bleedin' clue what their
doing.

>Please take heed of what this guy does for a living, he's a full-time network
>admin at a supercomputing center. a lot of them LIVE by email, a lot of work
>is submitted to supercomputers over e-mail. Also not that he is incorporating
>stuff from YEARS of experience; he may be more experienced than ANYONE on this 
>list when it comes to sendmail (unless a certain Mr. Allamn is a subscriber).
>I would not touch this with a ten foot pole unless I was running the same 

Same here.  Anyone tries to touch the source of my sendmail is going to
get cracked upside the head with the nearest piece of office furniture
and get their body dumped into the storm sewer.  I wouldn't even think
twice, nah... not even once, about trying something like this.

>version, any would not have high expectations of getting it all to work ringht
>even on a slightly different version, without a lot of careful comparison
>and understanding or rule-writing, etc.
>I have configured sendmail to run a number of e-mail servers and have from 
>time to time incorporated fragments of of m4 code in .mc files, then rebuilt
>with:
>m4 whatevername.mc > sendmail.cf, 

If setting up your sendmail is any harder than that,  go back to "Go",
and start over.