On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, John A. Tamplin wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Larry Sheldon wrote:
How do you think those references got there? Could it be that enough people requested it and asked how to do it with older versions of sendmail that it was made an optional part of the standard configuration?
Probably not.
Can you say "bait and switch", boys and girls.
Right out of Mad Man Muntz's handbook.
As I recall, the first modifications to use RBL in sendmail were done elsewhere, eventually a link was included on the sendmail site, and then it was part of the configuration.
I can see you are bitter about the impact on your mailservers. I am not happy about the way it was done as well, but assuming it was malacious seems excessive.
The modifications were done at Paul Vixie's specific request. So was "best practices" RFC 2505. Any doubt about that? Read the articles: http://www.dotcomeon.com/relay_default.html http://www.dotcomeon.com/allman_sendmail_qa.html Don't believe me. Believe the words of Paul Vixie and Eric Allman. --Mitch NetSide