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 at www mail]# ls -l access > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1120618 Feb 22 06:36 access > [root at www mail]# pwd > /etc/mail > [root at www mail]# wc -l access > 38628 access > [root at www mail]# grep DISCARD access|wc -l > 3121 > [root at www mail]# grep REJECT access|wc -l > 35480 > [root at www mail]# grep RELAY access|wc -l > 4 > [root at www mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 4.2 (Final) > [root at www mail]# rpm -q sendmail > sendmail-8.13.1-2 > [root at www mail]# > Yes, thirty-eight thousand six hundred twenty-eight lines. Works fine. I > don't think 275 entries hits any upper limit. > Just out of curiosity, does the access file have a combination of hostnames and IP's or is it strictly one or the other? I've got both. I was mistaken about the linecount too.. there are 625 lines instead of 275, but that apparently is not an issue. Sam