MS IPBlock... Please Help

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
   I use IPBlock with sendmail, but here are some suggestions:

1) Does the line in CustomConfig.pm (about line 748):

my $AccessDB     = '/etc/mail/access.db';

point to where your access.db file really is?  Mine is in a different
place, so I have to modify CustomConfig.pm whenever a new version of
MailScanner comes out.

2) If you have the right path, then are the permissions to the file
correct?  Mine is 644, owned by root, group mail.  However with Postfix,
your permissions may be different.

3) Is your db file created/managed by Sleepycat DB software?  If you
do a makemap to rebuild it, do you do "makemap hash"?  I use hash db
format with Sleepycat DB.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Holger Gebhard wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:01:41 +0100
> From: Holger Gebhard <gebhard at EPOST.DE>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MS IPBlock... Please Help
>
> Hi Julian,
> hi Group...
>
> One more Posting to the IPBlock Feature...
> I use MailScanner 4.29-7, with Spamassassin, etc. on a Debian
> System with Postfix Version 2.019.
>
> The last weeks i try to use the IPBlock Feature in Customconfig.pm.
> I added some IP-Adresses to IPBlock.conf, try to send some Mails...
> MailScanner count the IP´s in IPBlock.db...
>
> Up to this Point everything work perfect.
>
> But when the Counterlimit for a IP-Adress is reached,
> MailScanner wants to write the Blockinformation to
> the access.db file. Here is the Problem...
> Everytime MailScanner want to do this the Syslog show:
>
> IPBlock: Could not open access database
>
> I tried to figure out where is the Problem...
> I think the Postfix and Sendmails access.db file have the same
> Databasetype?
> I tried out various Filesystemrights...
> I think maybe Postfix use another Standart Databasetype with the Postmap
> command...
> So I tried some Postfix Databaseformats, like hash, dbm and btree with the
> access.db file...
>
> Everytime the same Problem.
>
> Anybody know where is the Problem and can help me?
>
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Holger
>
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