On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 16:33, Craig White wrote:
> >
> > As far as I know Will, sendmail looks at the access database, and will
> > not allow a connection from the sending host if that particular IP or
> > hostname happens to be in there. The access list *used* to work, but as
> > I mentioned, I'm wondering if perhaps I've hit an upper limit or
> > exceeded a limit where nothing in there is being parsed now. I don't go
> > by hostname when blocking. I look at the sending host IP and block
> > that. Headers from sendmail tell who or what connected to the port or
> > tried to connect.
> ----
> it does if you use REJECT
>
> it also does things like ALLOW
>
> and things like RELAY
>
> I have never had a sendmail 'access' file with more than a few lines and
> I don't think that it was actually intended to be a spam filter. There
> are other very good methodologies for managing spam and sendmail is
> quite capable of using them.
I don't think there is a size limit - it is just a normal dbm file.
There are some sendmail configuration options that must
be set to activate it, and it might be particular about
ownership/permissions on the file:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-89f.html#ACCESS_DB
There are some recent additions to functionality in the
access file with tagged entries:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-810.html#810TagLHS
but if the tag is omitted it works as before.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
