[Mailman-Users] Help with Relay Spammers

[Jon Carnes]

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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