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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:45:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com>
To:        Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/mail/access
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002162240400.969-100000@boris.netgate.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.10002171730380.24582-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>

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Did you enable the access_db feature in your mc file?

  FEATURE(access_db)dnl

I've never tried hacking it into the cf file; the changes look extensive.

You can read some about it at sendmail.org:

  http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html

Dave

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Rowan Crowe wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:36:22 +1100 (EST)
> From: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>
> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: /etc/mail/access
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a quick sendmail question, I have the following in /etc/mail/access
> from when I was playing around:
> 
>   earthlink.net   REJECT
> 
> Yet I just received a spam that arrived via earthlink...
> 
> 
> Received: from vulture.prod.itd.earthlink.net (vulture.prod.itd.earthlink.net
>     [207.217.121.36])
>         by denim.sensation.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02469
>         for <rowan@sensation.net.au>; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:23:18 +1100 (EST)
> 
> 
> Am I misunderstanding the syntax for this access file? Does it need to be
> an IP address/range or a full hostname?
> 
> (Yes, I did makemap and access.db is up to date)
> 
> Note - I have an external MX which doesn't have any spam prevention, I
> presume this will bypass any REJECTs since the spammer will deliver to the
> external MX, but in this case it arrived straight at my first MX.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> --
> Rowan Crowe                              http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/
> Sensation Internet Services                    http://www.sensation.net.au/
> Melbourne, Australia                                 Phone: +61-3-9388-9260
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 




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