On Saturday 11 March 2006 23:31, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> have listed to pass thru. I also thought perhaps there might be some
> "upper limit" to the number of entries sendmail could handle. What do
> the sendmail guru's think about that idea? I may reduce the number of
> entries from the current 275 +/- down to just the most offensive TLD's
> and see what happens. Short of that, are there any other thoughts ya'll
> might have as to why it still passes the stuff I want blocked?
On the upper limit issue, here's some output from a machine I help with (I am
not the mail admin on this machine, though, and I don't necessarily agree
with doing anti-spam with REJECT lines in access....):
[root@www mail]# ls -l access
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1120618 Feb 22 06:36 access
[root@www mail]# pwd
/etc/mail
[root@www mail]# wc -l access
38628 access
[root@www mail]# grep DISCARD access|wc -l
3121
[root@www mail]# grep REJECT access|wc -l
35480
[root@www mail]# grep RELAY access|wc -l
4
[root@www mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.2 (Final)
[root@www mail]# rpm -q sendmail
sendmail-8.13.1-2
[root@www mail]#
Yes, thirty-eight thousand six hundred twenty-eight lines. Works fine. I
don't think 275 entries hits any upper limit.
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Lamar Owen
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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(828)862-5554
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