Problem with IPBlock

[Derek Winkler]

I'd like to be able to use IPBlock but it won't open my sendmail access
file.

I've created a new blank database using:

makemap hash /etc/mail/access-ipblock < /etc/mail/access-ipblock

it creates the /etc/mail/access-ipblock.db file. I wanted to use a seperate
access file for it to test initially. By moving this file to anther system,
I can get:

# file access-ipblock.db
access-ipblock.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, big-endian)

The IPBlock DB returns:

# file IPBlock.db
IPBlock.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, big-endian)

I made the modifications as mentioned in CustomConfig.pm, here's the
relevant section:

# You may need to configure these for your site:
my $WhitelistFile= '/opt/MailScanner/etc/IPBlock.conf';
my $LockFile     = '/var/spool/MailScanner/IPBlock.lock';
my $LogFile      = '/var/spool/MailScanner/IPBlock.log';
my $BlockDB      = '/var/spool/MailScanner/IPBlock.db';
my $AccessDB     = '/etc/mail/access-ipblock.db';
my $Refusal      = '"550 Site blocked due to excessive email"';
my $DefaultMaxMessagesPerHour = 1000; # 999999999

and created the IPBlock.conf file in /opt/MailScanner/etc.

I get these messages in the log:

Sep 24 16:02:32 lime MailScanner[4164]: IPBlock: Could not open access
database /etc/mail/access-ipblock.db

Even when running the maintenance script, I get:

# ./IPBlock-cleanup.pl
Failed to open /etc/mail/access-ipblock.db, have you got the path wrong?
Invalid argument, Illegal seek at ./IPBlock-cleanup.pl line 144.
#

I'm running MailScanner 4.32.5 and Sendmail 8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7.

Here's some sendmail information:

# /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.10
Version 8.11.7p1+Sun
 Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS
                QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB XDEBUG
    OS Defines: HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASGETUSERSHELL HASINITGROUPS
                HASLSTAT HASRANDOM HASSETREUID HASSETRLIMIT HASSETSID
                HASSETVBUF HASSNPRINTF HASSTRERROR HASULIMIT HASUNAME
                HASWAITPID IDENTPROTO IP_SRCROUTE SAFENFSPATHCONF
SYS5SETPGRP
                SYSTEM5 USE_SA_SIGACTION USE_SIGLONGJMP USESETEUID

Is my sendmail just too old? Should I be upgrading some perl modules?

Thanks,

Derek

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