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19b7a44a6SPeter Wemm# $FreeBSD$
2a19eda1fSBrian Somers
3c38876e3SJonathan M. Bresler		Filtering out SPAM from your site
476200308SJonathan M. Bresler        Sendmail now includes excellent tools block spam.  These
576200308SJonathan M. Breslertools are available as FEATUREs that you can add to your site's
676200308SJonathan M. Bresler.mc file.  Proper use of these FEATUREs will prevent spammer from
776200308SJonathan M. Breslerusing your site as a relay as well as significantly decrease the
876200308SJonathan M. Bresleramount of spam that arrives at your site.  No set of anti-spam
976200308SJonathan M. Breslertools will block all spam without blocking some portion of legitimate
1076200308SJonathan M. Breslermail as well.  Therefore, these FEATUREs are designed to prevent
1176200308SJonathan M. Bresleras much spam as possible without blocking legitimate mail.
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1376200308SJonathan M. Bresler	These tools are discussed in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README.
1476200308SJonathan M. BreslerRead the section entitled "ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL".  Example
1576200308SJonathan M. Breslerusage and additional tools can be found in
1676200308SJonathan M. Bresler/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/cf/knecht.mc.
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