Lamar Owen wrote:
On Saturday 11 March 2006 23:31, Sam Drinkard wrote:
have listed to pass thru. I also thought perhaps there might be some "upper limit" to the number of entries sendmail could handle. What do the sendmail guru's think about that idea? I may reduce the number of entries from the current 275 +/- down to just the most offensive TLD's and see what happens. Short of that, are there any other thoughts ya'll might have as to why it still passes the stuff I want blocked?
On the upper limit issue, here's some output from a machine I help with (I am not the mail admin on this machine, though, and I don't necessarily agree with doing anti-spam with REJECT lines in access....): [root@www mail]# ls -l access -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1120618 Feb 22 06:36 access [root@www mail]# pwd /etc/mail [root@www mail]# wc -l access 38628 access [root@www mail]# grep DISCARD access|wc -l 3121 [root@www mail]# grep REJECT access|wc -l 35480 [root@www mail]# grep RELAY access|wc -l 4 [root@www mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.2 (Final) [root@www mail]# rpm -q sendmail sendmail-8.13.1-2 [root@www mail]# Yes, thirty-eight thousand six hundred twenty-eight lines. Works fine. I don't think 275 entries hits any upper limit.
Hmmmm...
Lamar, I am really puzzled now. If it works with that many lines in the access file, there has to be something else causing it to not read the 221/222 and others, but I'm at a loss to know what. I know perms and ownership is not the problem, nor is the makefile, as I've already double checked all that. Guess it's time to do a bit more googling, or delve into the sendmail docs a bit further.
Thanks for the info..
Sam