Re: Why no spam filter in RH?

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I'm sorry to say but dnsbl does not really help all that much with spam.  
Even more or less real-time lists are too slow.

I've been extremely happy with SpamAssassin myself.  Nothing to configure, 
extremely effective, zero false positives.

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Vilius Puidokas wrote:
> RHs chosen MTA (sendmail) can be easily configured to use rbl:
> FEATURE(`dnsbl') in sendmail.mc (then m4-compile it)
> 
> http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/endorsements.html
> This will cause sendmail to reject mail from any site in the Realtime
> Blackhole List database. You can specify an alternative RBL name server to
> contact by specifying an argument to the FEATURE. The default error
> message is "Mail from $&{client_addr} refused by blackhole site
> DOMAIN" where DOMAIN is replaced by the first argument. A second argument
> can be used to specify a different text. This FEATURE can be included
> several times to query different DNS based rejection lists.
> 
> if you want X-RBL-Warning field in the header instead of rejecting an 
> email, try rbl-milter: http://opensource.confusticate.com/rbl-milter/
> or http://www.milter.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/10/1624244&mode=thread
> v
> 
>  On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> 
> > I've just set up SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.org) on my system,
> > and I was wondering why Red Hat did not include a spam filter in its
> > distribution (at least I don't know of such a filter).
> > 
> > --- Vladimir
> > 
> > --------
> > Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
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