Custom blacklist??

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> Rob Morin wrote:
>   
>> Hello all...
>>
>> I added the following line in local.cf, but it has no affect... I must
>> be doing something retardily wrong?!
>>
>> blacklist_from  bloddy_ceaser at hotmail.com
>>
>> hoping the above would block email from the email address??
>>
>> SA 3.1
>>     
>
> I assume you're using SA under MailScanner.. Did you reload MailScanner after
> changing the config file? Local.cf only gets parsed when a SA instance is
> created, not for every message, so if you don't reload it won't take effect
> until MailScanner decides to kill and reload all the scanning children.
>
> (You could also restart mailscanner, but that causes the init script to also
> shut down and restart the sendmail instances, so it's overkill here)
>
>
>   
Wouldn't it be better to do the blacklist at the MTA level, or using "is 
definitely spam" in MailScanner.conf?