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authorjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-01 03:36:07 +0000
committerjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-01 03:36:07 +0000
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Update this file to no longer list the outdated information about gulf.net
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diff --git a/etc/mail/README b/etc/mail/README
index 222841a..1de804c 100644
--- a/etc/mail/README
+++ b/etc/mail/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id:$
+# $Id: README,v 1.5 1998/09/02 01:34:57 brian Exp $
Filtering out SPAM from your site
@@ -14,18 +14,10 @@ usernames (such as investor and success). We do not accept mail
from any machine that matches a entry in either database, or users
in the fakenames database.
- WARNING: We do not maintain the database source files.
- Read domain.txt and ips.txt.
- (Make will fetch them for you)
- Domains that you want to allow, should be added
- to the file /etc/mail/allowed_domains.txt.
- IP addresses that you want to allow, should be added
- to the file /etc/mail/allowed_ips.txt.
-
Filtering at your site:
To filter spam at your site you need to:
1. modify your /etc/sendmail.cf,
- 2. retrieve the database source files from the master site,
+ 2. create a list of domains/ips you wish to block
3. make the databases and
4. finally signal sendmail that the configuration file has changed.
@@ -35,22 +27,7 @@ in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.additions to your .mc file. If you do
not use m4 to generate your /etc/sendmail.cf, add the database
declarations to your /etc/sendmail.cf.
-2. Fetching the database source files:
-
- The database source files are available from Gulf Coast
-Internet via anonymous FTP. The Makefile in /etc/mail will retreive
-the source files for you: as root, type "cd /etc/mail; make" at
-the command line. The previous version of the database source
-files is moved to <filename>.0.
-
- Local additions should be kept in separate files. We use
-spamsites.local and denyip.local. You may want to diff the new
-versions of the files against the previous versions to see what
-has changed.
-
- Local deletions should be kept in separate files. We use
-allowed_domain.txt and allowed_ips.txt. (This feature was added
-after netcom.com was added to the spam block list.)
+2. Put the list of domains you wish to block in /etc/mail/spamsites
3. Make the databases:
As root, type "cd /etc/mail; make install" will build the
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