Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:38:54 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "James Csoka" <jimcsoka@dominionfirstmortgage.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Blocking an individual email address....again Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060216123512.0263d1c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <013b01c6330f$2e411120$2e07a8c0@domfirst.local> References: <20060215162403.2494C16A422@hub.freebsd.org> <20060215223010.GA53246@ns.museum.rain.com> <013b01c6330f$2e411120$2e07a8c0@domfirst.local>
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To debug this you need to kick up the logging on sendmail, add the loglevel
option to your sendmail options in rc.conf:
-O LogLevel=80
You will need a loglevel value fairly high, like 80. You can then watch or
just look at the sendmail log file:
/var/log/maillog
And see what is actually happening.
You should be aware that there are typically 2 to 3 separate instances of
sendmail running passing the mail around.
Hope this helps.
-Derek
At 09:39 AM 2/16/2006, James Csoka wrote:
>I'm reposting this with some more info.....any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>I have a mail server (it also functions as a firewall) running freebsd5.4,
>with mailscanner, openwebmail, and sendmail. I wish to block an individual
>email address, but I do not want to mark it as spam. My first solution was
>to add the blacklist feature to the sendmail.mc file, and recreate the .cf
>file, which I did. I then added the line To:user@example.com REJECT to the
>/etc/mail/access file, and ran make maps. I also had added the line
>user@example.com REJECT.
>
>This then blocked that address from sending email to people on my internal
>network. When I tested it from outside my network I used openwebmail as a
>web interface to send email to that address, and it failed. Which was what
>I wanted. However, from inside my network, using Outlook, you can send
>email to that address without a problem.
>
>It seems as if the access.db is doing it's job. When using openwebmail, the
>smtp server rejects any attempt to send mail to that address. however,
>locally, it does not. When i'm sitting in front of my windows client, I can
>use Outlook and send email to that address without a problem.
>
>Does anyone know why via a web interface, the access file rules would apply,
>yet they would be ignored when sending mail from inside the network using
>Outlook to send external email?
>
>
>
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