Re: sendmail problem

[Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at skannet.com.ng>]

Hello Rolf,

To /etc/mail/access please add:
216.252.234			RELAY

The IP block and RELAY are separated by Tabs.

You will need to execute:

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

This recreates the hash table everytime you change any of the hash tables
used by sendmail.

The deny table is also used by sendmail for antispam etc. If you want to
prevent mails from lotto.com, you will add to /etc/mail/deny

lotto.com		"Spammer! Go away!!"

If you are not blocking any domain, then just execute:

touch /etc/mail/deny


Again to build the map, you need to execute:

makemap hash /etc/mail/deny < /etc/mail/deny

Last word, the file created by makemap with the hash type always has a .db
extension, so the command really does not overwrite (as it would seem).

Good luck and Regards ...

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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Rolf MOLUH wrote:

> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:21:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rolf MOLUH <njilier at yahoo.com>
> To: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: sendmail problem
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> Hi all,
> 
> I have configured sendmail on a RH Linux7 box and it
> worked with the old IP address I was using. I am
> unable to send mails anymore. Here are the last
> entries of my maillog file.
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> Jun 30 23:45:42 tangmbo sendmail[1889]: f5UMjbU01889:
> SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash database
> /etc/mail/deny.db: Invalid argument
> Jun 30 23:45:42 tangmbo sendmail[1891]: f5UMjgU01891:
> ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<njilier at yahoo.com>,
> relay=IDENT:root at host-216-252-234-39.interpacket.net
> [216.252.234.39], reject=551 5.7.1 we do not relay
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> What could be the problem?
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> Thanks in advace
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> Rolf
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