Re: Sendmail/Blacklists rejecting authenticated users

Łukasz Kwiek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Knox napisał(a):
> Quick question regarding dnsbl's...  The other day I was in the 
> Pittsburgh airport trying to send an email using their free wifi.  
> Unsurprisingly this network's ip range is listed on a few of the 
> blacklists. This resulted in my mail server rejecting my connection 
> when I tried to send some emails.  Does anyone know how I can 
> configure sendmail/procmail to not check the IP addresses against the 
> dnsbls for authenticated users?  I have already done a fair amount of 
> googling but haven't come up with anything workable, nor can I think 
> of a good way to test (since I don't have access to a blacklisted 
> network).
> Thanks,
> Mike
Just add this line to your sendmail.mc configuration:

FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl
(more about this sendmail option at: 
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html#delay_check)

Using dnsbl with "delay_checks" and local whitelist should solve all 
your problems which you can have with dnsbl.

Regards,
Woo
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