[CentOS] Re: Sendmail restriction

Thu Aug 31 17:58:25 UTC 2006
Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com>

Richard wrote:
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> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:47 -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>      I'm looking for a way, in sendmail, to set access rule, saying:
>>>
>>> Accept messages for domain.com only from this IP address.
>>>
>>> I did some research yesterday, but could only find a way to restrict by 
>>> IP for all domains managed by sendmail.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> It is overkill for this one job, but if you add MimeDefang
>> (http://www.mimedefang.org) as a milter, you can easily add
>> tests like that in perl in your filter code.  Well maybe it's
>> not overkill compared to learning how to write sendmail
>> rulesets in its own macro language - and if you want to add
>> virus or spam scans it is a big win.
>>
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> Another option is to run another sendmail daemon configured to listen on
> a non-standard port with its own cf and access files and have the sender
> output to that port.

That is a good idea, I'll see if I can do that in this specific 
situation.  Other ideas welcome :).

Thanks

Ugo