On 7/23/07, Darrin Chandler  wrote:

quoted text
> It seems normal enough. What I and some others have done in addition is

> to add a whitelist that bypasses spamd altogether. Into that whitelist

> goes gmail (host -ttxt gmail.com) and other large providers using pools

> for outgoing mail.

Good point.
> If you are concerned about the entries that you saw whitelisted, have

quoted text
> you checked where the mail went that they sent? If this is wholly your

> domain then you should be able to easily see that. If you can't look

> (because it's other people's mail) then you can still ask around and see

> if people have been getting spam.

I've not had a chance to examine where the white listed hosts

were trying to send to (yet).  I have yet to run sendmail to

accept incoming mail.  However, while monitoring the output

from spamdb, I did noticed most "to" addresses for the GREY

trapped hosts were bogus recipients.
> Also, though spamd works GREAT, it is what it is. As I mentioned above,

quoted text
> it will not stop spam from real mail servers, whether open relays or

> spam house servers. You may get to the point where you do want to add

I see your point about open relays and such.
Thanks for your input!

--patrick