RE: [vps-mail] Dramatic increase of SPAM during last days

["Brian Haines" <providertalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks everyone!

I had to chmod 644 sendmail.cf and then removed write permissions when
complete. Looks like the following lines were added by my revised efforts
(Thanks Godwin!).

My FEATURE lines did have to go before the default MAILER lines.

# DNS based IP address spam list bl.spamcop.net
R$*			$: $&{client_addr}
R$-.$-.$-.$-		$: <?> $(dnsbl $4.$3.$2.$1.bl.spamcop.net. $: OK $)
R<?>OK			$: OKSOFAR
R<?>$+<TMP>		$: TMPOK
R<?>$+			$#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 (SPAM - Spamcop)"

# DNS based IP address spam list sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
R$*			$: $&{client_addr}
R$-.$-.$-.$-		$: <?> $(dnsbl $4.$3.$2.$1.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org. $:
OK $)
R<?>OK			$: OKSOFAR
R<?>$+<TMP>		$: TMPOK
R<?>$+			$#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 (SPAM - Spamhaus)"

# DNS based IP address spam list dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
R$*			$: $&{client_addr}
R$-.$-.$-.$-		$: <?> $(dnsbl $4.$3.$2.$1.dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net. $:
OK $)
R<?>OK			$: OKSOFAR
R<?>$+<TMP>		$: TMPOK
R<?>$+			$#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 (SPAM - SORBS)"

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Lock
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:30 AM
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vps-mail] Dramatic increase of SPAM during last days


At 09:13 AM 8/24/2004 -0400, Brian Haines wrote:
>I don't seem to have permission to edit sendmail.cf on the VPS1 I am
>trying to configure for DNSBL. I have tried via iManager to edit the 
>file directly, I have also built a new .mc file and after building a 
>new.cf I tried to copy it to ~/etc/sendmail.cf or to /etc/sendmail.cf 
>with Permission denied.
>
>Am I supposed to have permission to edit this file? Do I need to Stop
>Sendmail first? How?

First, sendmail.cf is marked read-only in most setups, so you'd have to 
chmod it to 666 or something like that to edit and save it.

Second, it's marked read-only for a reason!  You shouldn't be editing 
sendmail.cf directly.  You should be using the m4 macro files supplies by 
Verio to generate a new sendmail.cf.

I've got a shell script that automates much of this once you vinstall 
sendmail.  Let me know if you want it.

Cheers!

John Lock - VP, Technology
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