Help! ....We are taking 120k msgs per day and climbing

[Kevin Hanser]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Weaver [mailto:ryanw at FALSEHOPE.COM] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 15:56
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Help! ....We are taking 120k msgs per day and climbing
> 
> > I just put the above line in my sendmail.mc, and already I'm seeing
> > rejections based on it :)  And it looks like load is going 
> down on my
> > server too.  I have one question though: the messages generated look
> > something like this:
> >
> > reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to <> thru host242-37.po
> > ol82187.interbusiness.it by The Spamhaus SBL+XBL DNSBL ; 
> Please visit
> > http://www
> > .spamhaus.org/ for more information.
> >
> > My question is:  What's supposed to be in <>?  Do I have 
> something not
> > set up properly on my sendmail?  This is the stock sendmail 
> that comes
> > w/FC1...
> >
> > Thx!
> 
>         It will be the address to which the email was going 
> to... You may
> also need to add FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl to the sendmail.mc 
> and regenerate
> for it to populate the $&f variable...
> 


Yep, that did it (uncommenting delay_checks).  Thanx!

k

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