Hi

Could anyone tell me if the entries i have below are right for sendmail to block spam mail from those addresses?

I have entered them into the "Setting Rejected senders" as follows...

*merchantcentral.com
*azoogle.com
*postlite.com
*mb00.net
*pm0.net
*mailmediapro.com
*inyouremail.com
*currentmail.com
*pcyy.com

Does sendmail recognise the "*" before the domain name?

thanks,

regan.

What is "Setting Rejected Senders"?

You need to add them into /etc/mail/access eg

I should point out you'll need to execute:

makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access

sorry, that should have read "Spammers".

that option is available in linuxconf - I'm running linux (mandrake).

are the instructions you've put here for linux or windows?

thanks paul,

regan.

>>are the instructions you've put here for linux or windows? <<

They are instructions for sendmail.

thanks paul. i've done that, will see how it goes.

regan.

hi paul,

just on this one again - was wondering if it should go in the "access" file or the "deny" file? just saw deny there and wondered...

also, if i wanted to add a subdomain instead of the whole domain, would you simply just list it as you have with the others - for exmaple...

reply.pm0.net

thanks,
regan.

>>just on this one again - was wondering if it should go in the "access" file or the "deny" file? <<

Do you mean hosts.deny? ....if so, yes you can put domains if there but I think it will block them from all services, not just email.

>>
also, if i wanted to add a subdomain instead of the whole domain, would you simply just list it as you have with the others
<<

Yep thats correct.

hi paul,

nope, not hosts.deny - i've got a file in my /etc/mail/ directory called deny that has the list of spam domains in it that I've entered through linuxconf - that's where it seems to put them instead of in the access file.

regan.

hi again,

will straight ip addresses work as well, or can I only specify the name of the domain?

thanks,

regan.

I believe you can only specify the domain.

http://www.linuxdoc.org/....3/chap22sec178.html
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me

thanks for the link! I'll have a read through it.

regan.

Yes you can enter IP's into the access database.

You can block a network like so:

213.106.15

That would be the same as:

213.106.15.*

By the way, you don't want them in your hosts.deny / hosts.allow files as sendmail does not use these by default. Typically it's only programs launched through inetd (telnet, ftp sometimes, ssh sometimes) that use it.

Cheers,

Alex
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