>Otherwise, it's trivial in the case of sendmail. It took me maybe 10
minutes.
>(Copy a ruleset from either the sendmail.org or spam.abuse.net Web page
>into sendmail.cf, add a couple of domains to a config file, kill and restart
>the daemon. Done. And test... another couple of minutes.)
Three things here. First, you have to know that the patch is available. I
believe that most people running sendmail do so because it came with their
Unix software and have no idea what sendmail.org is (or even whether it is
trustworthy; anyone could have gotten that domain name). Second, slapping a
patch into sendmail.cf is not easy for someone who's not familiar with
sendmail intracacies. Third, I think the temporary bounces people on this
list have seen come during the testing period you mention. You test period
might have been ten minutes, but I suspect most others are overnight, until
users complain that they stopped receiving mail from certain mailing lists.
I expect that this patch will become a one-liner in the next sendmail
configuration, but we're not there yet. And even then, the adoption rate of
8.8.x revisions isn't all that high. We're still stuck with trying to get
out the word manually about turning off relays.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
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