[Mailman-Users] Help with Relay Spammers

[Greg Rees]

Thanks Jon and Ashley, I've made the changes you recommended and I'll test to
see if it will work.. I know it should never come to that, but there has never
been a problem until now.

Thanks again

Greg

On Mon, 04 Mar 2002, you wrote:
> Linuxconf is not an ideal tool for manipulating Sendmail....  You should make 
> sure that you are using an up-to-date version of sendmail and then you will 
> need to setup your sendmail so that it knows all the "local" names that are 
> used for you mailserver.  
> After that, you can setup allowed relays via the file: /etc/mail/access.  If 
> you have problems at that point put in your ip address and the key word 
> ALLOW.  Of course Ashley is right, it should never come to that!
> 
> Jon Carnes
>  --- Original Message: Saturday 02 March 2002 02:25 am ---
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just been bombarded with those dreaded relay spammers.  My setup is
> > RedHat 6.1, Sendmail with Kmail front end, and Apache.
> >
> > To get Mailman-2.0.8 working on my setup, I had to "enable relay control"
> > in Sendmail so that mailman would be able to send out messages to the list.
> > Things have been working as expected with messages sent to the list and
> > messages going out to the members of the list.
> >
> > Today I had to go into Linuxconf and to the Sendmail part to "disable relay
> > control", by doing this, all messages sent to the list are killed off
> > because Sendmail thinks the messages are spam messages (which they really
> > are) but not those dreaded relay spam messages that some people take
> > enjoyment to send around.
> >
> > I have read most of the documentation to find no mention of this occurance,
> > maybe I skipped over the part without knowing or maybe it is not mentioned
> > anywhere.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can get arround this problem with Sendmail or
> > Mailman.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
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