Sendmail reject trumps whitelist?

[Randal, Phil]

I've had another look at all this.

To bypass RBL checking from AOL you'd do

Connect:aol.com	OK

The friend stuff is for recipient email addresses, not sender ones.

So, to ensure that your abuse address gets emails from boxes otherwise
blocked by RBLs, you'd use:

Spam:abuse.my.domain	FRIEND

See also:

http://blue-labs.org/howto/access_hints.php

Cheers,

Phil
--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Brett Charbeneau
> Sent: 20 November 2006 14:25
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: Sendmail reject trumps whitelist?
> 
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Brett Charbeneau wrote:
> 
> BC> > > Greetings all,
> BC> > >
> BC> > >       I've set up sendmail to reject incoming 
> messages with a 554 error
> BC> > if
> BC> > > they are listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net by sticking this line in my
> BC> > sendmail.mc
> BC> > > file:
> BC> > >
> BC> > > FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"554 Rejected " 
> $&{client_addr} > "
> BC> > > BLACKLISTED found in dnsbl.sorbs.net"')dnl
> BC> > >
> BC> > >       Now this list tends to get mad a AOL and 
> Hotmail mail servers for
> BC> > > obvious reasons and therefore ALL mail from these 
> domains, legit or not, 
> BC> > 
> BC> > Have sendmail "OK" aol.com and hotmail.com and let 
> mailscanner deal
> BC> > with what is spam or not for those two domains
> BC> 
> BC> 	Ah, so!
> BC> 	Good idea, Res - many thanks. Sendmail took my
> BC> 
> BC> Spam:*aol.com		FRIEND
> BC> 
> BC> 	so I think I'm in business.
> BC> 	Thanks to all who offered suggestions and ideas!
> 
> 	For posterity: turns out the sendmail access database 
> does NOT support 
> wildcards. So the entry above
> 
> Spam:*aol.com               FRIEND
> 
> 	should *really* be
> 
> Spam:@aol.com               FRIEND
> 
> 	to allow aol.com mail to get past the sendmail 554 rejection.
> 
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> Brett Charbeneau
> Network Administrator
> Williamsburg Regional Library
> 7770 Croaker Road
> Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
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