ip addresses in whitelist are still being blocked

[Spicer, Kevin]

> > You posted earlier that you were trying to get mailstats.pl working.
> > mailstats.pl doesn't just produce statistics, it also will 
> automatically
> > add the ip of spam senders to sendmails blacklist [note 
> this can be turned
> > off in the mailstats config file] - it looks like perhaps 
> that is what is
> > happening. AFAIK MS and SA don't alter sendmails access datbase
> > themselves.
> 
> Wow. I had no idea. What setting exactly do I change?
> 
> Jody
> 

There isn't a seperate config file as I implied.  The settings are neat the beginning of the perl script itself and are well commented.  The specific one you need to change to stop it editing the access db is 
$UseAccess = 1;
which you should change to
$UseAccess = 0;

Don't forget that you'll also need to go through the access database (/etc/mail/access commonly) and take out the entries it has added if you want to revearse the work it has done - don't forget to rebuild access.db (makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access) and restart MailScanner (in order to restart the sendmail processes).



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