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

[Ryan Weaver]

> <snip>
>> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org', `"550 5.7.1 ACCESS
>> DENIED to <"$&f"> thru "$&{client_name}" by The Spamhaus
>> SBL+XBL DNSBL; Please visit http://www.spamhaus.org/ for
>> more information."')dnl
>
> 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...

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