[KLUG Members] using sendmail to block spam

[Robert G. Brown]

Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
>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.

I don't think that is what's going on here. I am fairly convinced he's 
**NOT** touching the source at all. I will not take the time to verify
this by ploughing through the entire build to see if any .m4 files he
IS hacking are used in the buils itself. Why? I've got better things to
do; this will be WORK! :)

Earlier, I had written:
>>Please take heed of what this guy does for a living, he's a full-time
>>network admin at a supercomputing center...note that he is incorporating
>>stuff from YEARS of experience; he may be more experienced...unless a
>>certain Mr. Allman is a subscriber).

>>I would not touch this with a ten foot pole ....

>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.
Adam!
  1. Don't hold back on your feelings on this topic, please! We want to
     know how you REALLY feel! :)
  2. Admittedly, he's not touching source. What he is doing is patching
     up .m4 files a LOT more deeply than merely adding or modifying a few
     fairly simple declaritive macros in sendmail.mc

>I wouldn't even think twice, nah... not even once, about trying something
>like this.
I'm sure it works for him. I'm lso sure he writes "sendmail" in that little
box on the tax form where it say "occupation"! :)

>>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.

My problems have mostly been difficulty with understanding how particular 
features interact, and in figuring out whether my sense of "local" or "remote"
matches the documentation. Other than that, I make the usual mistakes any M4
novice might have made.
							Regards,
							---> RGB <---