[CentOS] sendmail many emails

Sat May 15 16:47:16 UTC 2010
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 10:45 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I was getting MANY emails from XXX.hinet.net - kind of filled my
> mqueue 
> directory.
> I stopped sendmail. removed all the files in mqueue, added to
> sendmail 
> access a REJECT for hinet.net
> This certainly seems to help - but is that the correct way to take
> care 
> of this sort of thing?

That's the way that I do it.

# Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
# of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
# The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
# package.
#
# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain		RELAY
localhost			RELAY
142.165.59.200			RELAY
24.72.131.56			RELAY
24.89.105.7 			RELAY
192.168.0.6			RELAY
192.168.1.6			RELAY
manashosting.name		REJECT
lowratemarketing.net		REJECT
superbservers.com		REJECT
jlineresults.com		REJECT
hinet.net			REJECT
casksand.com			REJECT
adobeacier.com			REJECT
spcsdns.net			REJECT
smallcapmining02.net		REJECT
tops-1.com			REJECT
calpop.com			REJECT
ae				REJECT
ar				REJECT
at				REJECT
be				REJECT
bg				REJECT
biz				REJECT
br				REJECT
by				REJECT
cl				REJECT
cn				REJECT
co				REJECT
cz				REJECT
do				REJECT
es				REJECT
hu				REJECT
id				REJECT
in				REJECT
it				REJECT
mx				REJECT
nl				REJECT
pe				REJECT
pk				REJECT
pl				REJECT
pt				REJECT
ro				REJECT
ru				REJECT
sa				REJECT
sg				REJECT
sk				REJECT
th				REJECT
tr				REJECT
tw				REJECT
tv				REJECT
ua				REJECT
za				REJECT
eekeer.com			REJECT


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