Re: Getting sendmail to drop email with a specific subject line.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Steven Jones wrote:
> SCheckSubject
> R$={FullSubjects}$*[TAB]$: REJECTSUBJECT
> R$* $={PartSubjects} $*[TAB]$: REJECTSUBJECT
> R$* REJECTSUBJECT $*[TAB]$#error $: "553 Access Denied - MSG may contain
> SPAM/WORM/VIRUS/HOAX."
>
> Which rejects based on key words in /etc/mail/subjects_part
>
> Ie *****spam*****
>
> Anyone out there who can edit this for me to simply drop or point at
> /dev/null please? I do not want to bounce the email back, just
> blackhole it.
1) s/$#error/$#discard/
2) rebuild sendmail.cf
3) restart/reload sendmail
that will silently discard such messages - you'll probably have to scan
/var/log/mail.log to see it working
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