On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:30 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: 
Sam Drinkard wrote:
> I've noticed from the sendmail logs, certain IP's are being blocked via
> the known spammers configuration in the sendmail.cf.  What I also note
> is in my access file, I have several TLD's that are listed, yet are NOT
> being blocked.  Yes, I do call a make after each edit of the access
> list, and going by the timestamp on access.db, it appears to being
> updated, yet again, in the sendmail portion of the daily logs, those
> TLD's which are in the access list are not listed as being blocked. 
> 
> Hope that is not too confusing.. think I confused myself, but in any
> case, things are in there that should be blocked and are not being. 
> 
> Hints?
> 
> Sam

Hi Sam,

What do the entries look like? I mean how do they appear in the
/etc/mail/access file?

Mark, the entries are like this....

24.245.42.191        REJECT
25.110.50              REJECT
30.120                  REJECT
40                        REJECT
somedomain.com  REJECT
zw                        REJECT
another-idea.com  REJECT


etc... those just examples of the way the IP's and hostnames are in the access file.  I've been using an access file for years, but just noticed these IP's were not being blocked, but some are being caught by the spamd/rtbl and other spam fighting tools.

Sam