Re: Woody Sendmail: blacklist_recipients feature not working

[Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, roy hills wrote:

> >Did you rebuilt the sendmail.cf file?
> >Did you restart sendmail?


You converted the access.db with:
"makemap hash access.db < access"
I think it should be (from the cf. README):
[...]
Remember, since /etc/mail/access is a database, after creating the text
file as described below, you must use makemap to create the database
map.  For example:
	makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access
[...]

> >> To:root@                                REJECT
> >
> >Why did you use "To:root@"? Should it not be "root@"?
> 
> You can use the tags "To:", "From:" or "Connect:" on the LHS of the access 
> map to limit the matching to envelope rcpt, envelope from or connection 
> info.  See:
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-89-1.html
> This is also covered in the latest bat book I think.

As far as I understood it FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients') does not provide
the level of configuration control provided by the To: tag.

So what will happen if you only use
FEATURE(`access_db')
and add the following to your access database:

 To:root@			REJECT
 From:root@			REJECT

Oliver
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