5.0.7 mmdf smtpcull

From: Brian K. White (brian@aljex.com)
Date: 04/25/03 

From: brian@aljex.com (Brian K. White)
Date: 24 Apr 2003 15:37:12 -0700

I have been installing smtpcull on all my boxes that can be seen from
the internet to stop spammers from using them.

I'm setting up my first 5.0.7 box,
is it still neccessary to use smtpcull?

What I'm asking is, have they hardened the stock mmdf install in some
way making smtpcull unneccessary or should I go ahead and install it
like usual?

The reason I'm asking is I see they juiced up quite a few things and a
lot of things I usually install or re-configure are already done on
5.0.7 out of the box.

ps:
anyone who could answer the question almost certainly already knows
what smtpcull is, but just so I don't look too rude, here is a link
for those who haven't heard of it yet.

ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/mmdf/smtpcull

and just to make it real easy for people to install, here is the
script I use to install it. it downloads smtpcull & installs it
instantly and it safely avoids renaming the real smtpsvr binary more
than once, so you can run the same script at later times to install
newer versions of smtpcull.

gtli # cat setup_smtpcull
#!/bin/ksh
# downloads and installs "smtpcull", the spam anti-relay script for
# mmdf. installs a blacklist that rejects all relaying by default.
# local and outgoing mail will keep working.
# brian@aljex.com

CWD=`pwd`

cd /usr/mmdf/chans
#wget ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/mmdf/smtpcull
rftp -g -bh ftp.armory.com /pub/admin/mmdf smtpcull
chmod 755 smtpcull
echo "*" > ../table/blacklist
file smtpsrvr |grep -q "executable" && {
    mv -f smtpsrvr smtpsrvr.bin
} || {
    mv -f smtpsrvr smtpsrvr`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`
}
[ -x smtpsrvr.bin ] && mv -f smtpcull smtpsrvr
cd $CWD

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