Sendmail reject trumps whitelist?

Matt Kettler mkettler at evi-inc.com
Thu Nov 16 18:24:21 GMT 2006


Brett Charbeneau wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
>     I've set up sendmail to reject incoming messages with a 554 error if
> they are listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net by sticking this line in my
> sendmail.mc file:
> 
> FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"554 Rejected " $&{client_addr} > "
> BLACKLISTED found in dnsbl.sorbs.net"')dnl

Anything at the sendmail level will completely trump MailScanner.

MailScanner doesn't even see the message until after Sendmail is done receiving
it, so it would be impossible for it to have any effect.





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