Lamar Owen wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmmmm...
Lamar, I am really puzzled now. If it works with that many lines in the
access file, there has to be something else causing it to not read the
221/222 and others, but I'm at a loss to know what. I know perms and
ownership is not the problem, nor is the makefile, as I've already
double checked all that. Guess it's time to do a bit more googling, or
delve into the sendmail docs a bit further.
Thanks for the info..
Sam
