How do I stop this???

[Gerry Doris]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Gib Gilbertson Jr. wrote:

> At 11:05 AM 3/28/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Kevin Spicer wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 20:46, Gerry Doris wrote:
> > > > > >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
> > > Assuming the mail is hitting your box directly from the source IP you
> > > could always block it with iptables.
> >
> >Unfortunately, this mail is arriving via fetchmail.
> >
> >It's been an interesting problem as it appears that sendmail reads the
> >sender's address, logs the problem in the syslog, and discards the message
> >prior to checking the access database.  I end up without the message but
> >have an entry in the logs.
>
> The message is discarded because you have
>
> spinfinder.com          DISCARD
>
> in your access file, which will discard anything from this domain.
>

Actually, that is NOT correct.  I put that entry into my access file to
try and get sendmail to discard the message without logging the problem in
my syslog.  sendmail still logs the problem whether the entry is in the
access database or not.

I took out the access entries associated with this messsage and sendmail
is still logging and discarding the message...it's been going on every 5
minutes for nearly a week now.  I've sent messages to the postmaster of
the domain and even complained to their ISP...nothing.

I believe that sendmail is noticing that there is an unacceptable
character in the sender address, logging the problem, and discarding the
message before it gets around to checking the access database.

--
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer