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

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> > 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...

If you want to do RBL rejects i really would suggest you start using DSBL
for that. SpamHaus is i think also nice, but i'd first check with DSBL.

Bye,
Raymond.

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