[CentOS] Sendmail.cf / access.db

Mon Feb 27 17:10:30 UTC 2006
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 27.02.2006 schrieb Sam Drinkard um 13:30:
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>>On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:30 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
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>>>Sam Drinkard wrote:
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>>>>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. 
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>>>>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. 
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>>>>Hints?
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>>>>Sam
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>>>Hi Sam,
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>>>What do the entries look like? I mean how do they appear in the
>>>/etc/mail/access file?
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>>Mark, the entries are like this....
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>>24.245.42.191        REJECT
>>25.110.50              REJECT
>>30.120                  REJECT
>>40                        REJECT
>>somedomain.com  REJECT
>>zw                        REJECT
>>another-idea.com  REJECT
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>>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.
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>>Sam
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>Without detailed information about your sendmail.mc configuration, debug
>test output and maillog entries showing the problem it is hard to say
>why the mails go through.
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>Alexander
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Aside from relaying my own domain, the entire sendmail.cf is completely 
stock.