How do I stop this???

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If you go to /etc/mail and type make, all the databases vil be made,
After changing something in the access file. 

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
Sent: 27. mars 2004 21:55
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: How do I stop this???

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Gerry Doris [mailto:gdoris at ROGERS.COM] Envoyé : 27 mars, 2004 
>15:47 À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK Objet : Re: How do I stop this???
>
>
>On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>> >-----Message d'origine-----
>> >De : Gerry Doris [mailto:gdoris at ROGERS.COM] Envoyé : 27 mars, 2004 
>> >13:37 À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK Objet : Re: How do I stop 
>> >this???
>> >
>> >
>> >On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> >
>> >> Gerry,
>> >>
>> >> What was the entry you put in your access maps.
>> >>
>> >> Did you  remake the access.db after changing the access map?
>> >>
>> >> Steve
>> >
>> >I've ended up putting all of the following lines in /etc/mail/access
>> >
>> >spinfinder.com                  DISCARD
>> >64.227.180.130                  DISCARD
>> >dayzersagency?@spinfinder.com   DISCARD
>> >
>> >and then running
>> >
>> >makemap hash access < access
>> 
>> Are you sure your db is named access?  mine is called accessdb
>
>Yes, my access database file is called access.db.  That's what it is 
>called in sendmail.mc and it works for the other addresses that I've 
>put in it.

Ok, then the command you typed earlier in the message for makemap is wrong.

should have been : 


>
>I'm curious as to the best way to stop such a problem.  I believe what 
>I'm experiencing is the result of a misconfig and I've sent a message 
>to the postmaster of the domain.  However, how would you prevent a DoS 
>attack if someone tried to fire off as many messages as possible from 
>multiple systems using non-printable characters in the sending address.
> It seems
>like there isn't a way to avoid sendmail trying to process the email 
>and generating error messages.
>
>Gerry
>