How do I stop this???

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Sun Mar 28 04:10:04 IST 2004


>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Gerry Doris [mailto:gdoris at ROGERS.COM]
>Envoyé : 27 mars, 2004 17:22
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: How do I stop this???
>
>
>On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>snip...
>>
>> The makemap command should then be
>>
>> makemap hash accessdb < access
>
>No, that isn't correct.  The above command will create a hash 
>file called
>accessdb.db. 

Sorry.

> I need a file called access.db which is produced by
>
>makemap hash access < access
>
>I'm certain that there is nothing wrong with my access.db 
>file.  Perhaps
>I'm putting the wrong address in it but generating it isn't 
>the problem.
>
>What I want to do is quietly discard specific email messages sent to me
>without causing a load on my system.  I thought I could use sendmail's
>access database to accomplish this but it isn't working.  My access.db
>file working for other entries.
>
>The messages in question are being discarded but sendmail is 
>still writing
>the error to my syslog.  The error in the syslog is
>
>Mar 27 12:15:05 tiger sendmail[24994]: i2RHF53U024994: Syntax 
>error in mailbox
>address "dayzersagency?@spinfinder.com" (non-printable character)
>
>--
>Gerry
>
>"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
>




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