From: Andrzej Adam Filip on
"tg" <nospam(a)nospamevereverever.net> wrote:
> HSBC spam always gets into my inbox. How can I stop it?
> I have a raq550 running strongbolt2, sendmail version is m4, 8.22 (I
> think). I use dnsbl lists in my sendmail config and they stop a lot of
> spam, but the HSBC scam emails always get through and it drives me
> nuts. What tweaks can I do in my sendmail.mc file to stop it?
> thanks for any help.

Both HSBC scams I received today could be blocked by
FEATURE(`require_rdns')
[ Two scams can not be treated as a representative sample ]

P.S.
It is possible to exclude a few "near by countries" from revDNS checks
but it requires using m4 file not provided by sendmail.org to generate
sendmail.cf.

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From: tg on

"Andrzej Adam Filip" <anfi(a)onet.eu> wrote in message
news:lzmpy8skrz-A1D(a)michael.brudna.chmurka.net...

> Both HSBC scams I received today could be blocked by
> FEATURE(`require_rdns')

thanks andre I tried:
FEATURE(`require_rdns')dnl in my sendmail file but when I restarted
sendmail I got:
Starting sendmail: sendmail.mc:74: m4: Cannot open
/usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature/require_rdns.m4: No such file or
directory



From: Knute Johnson on
On 1/14/2010 5:15 AM, tg wrote:
> "Andrzej Adam Filip"<anfi(a)onet.eu> wrote in message
> news:lzmpy8skrz-A1D(a)michael.brudna.chmurka.net...
>
>> Both HSBC scams I received today could be blocked by
>> FEATURE(`require_rdns')
>
> thanks andre I tried:
> FEATURE(`require_rdns')dnl in my sendmail file but when I restarted
> sendmail I got:
> Starting sendmail: sendmail.mc:74: m4: Cannot open
> /usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature/require_rdns.m4: No such file or
> directory
>
>
>

require_rdns requires 8.14 or later?

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