[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail/SPAM

[Jay Urish]

At 05:20 PM 11/10/00, you wrote:
>We are running  Sendmail 8.11.0 & Sun 5.7 on our mail servers at work, the
>SPAM our users have been getting is increasing at a very sad rate. I found
>that anyone could connect to the sendmail port issue a simple helo command &
>start sending mail from our servers. Indeed the IP was in syslog however I
>would like to disable this if it is an option. We feel this is were some if
>not most of the spam is coming from. Does any one know if this is a sendmail
>or Solaris issue?


Sendmail issue.. You probably just compiled it in stock form.. I have a 
linux.mc file I could send you that  uses the RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) 
to block spam friendly ISP's..


>  And how we can disable this option?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Joey
>
>_______________________________________________
>http://ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss


Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net