[CentOS] Sendmail restriction

Sat Sep 2 00:40:59 UTC 2006
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Feizhou wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> Yes, add a lookup to check sending host ip against domain and add some 
> rules to check. This has been tested in sendmail ruleset testing mode 
> only...you probably want to run some tests of your own.
> 
> eg: your sendmail is configured to relay for example.org.
> 
> Add a domainip berkeley db.
> example.org 192.168.10.4 in domainip
> 
> 
> Add a map to sendmail.cf (after access map in this example)
> 
> # Access list database (for spam stomping)
> Kaccess hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db
> 
> # Domain ip list
> Kdomainip hash /etc/mail/domainip.db
> 
> # Configuration version number
> DZ8.13.1
> 
> 
> Add rules to check sending host ip (client_addr) against domain. Put the 
> four missing lines in your Local_check_rcpt ruleset. You cannot just 
> copy and paste from this mail. Put a tab/tabs between the $: and $#error 
> and the > character of each line

Probably easier, update /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} and/or update your 
firewall to block the port from undesirables.




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