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diff --git a/etc/mail/README b/etc/mail/README index 4a3c380..51a033f 100644 --- a/etc/mail/README +++ b/etc/mail/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Filtering out SPAM from your site + Filtering out SPAM from your site Introduction: The FreeBSD Project filters spam, unsolicited commerical @@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ 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, @@ -26,14 +34,21 @@ 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. +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.) 3. Make the databases: As root, type "cd /etc/mail; make install" will build the |
