Sam Drinkard wrote:
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
Sam,
To my knowledge you need to use wildcards for incomplete entries such as ones you've listed above. I.e...
25.110.50.* REJECT 30.120.*.* REJECT 40.*.*.* REJECT