Problem with IPBlock

[Julian Field]

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I guess it's to do with the db format. Have you tried updating DBI and
AnyDBM_File? you might want to check the exact names of them in CPAN, I may
have got the names wrong.

Your sendmail certainly isn't too old, I have used this on 8.9.1.

At 21:49 24/09/2004, you wrote:
>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?

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