[OT] Sendmail and access file question

[Scott Silva]

Rose, Bobby spake the following on 9/30/2006 2:45 PM:
>  
> I've researched this before in the past but I didn't really find
> anything about it on the net or the bat book that says 'ay' or 'nay' on
> the possibility.  Does anyone know if sendmail's access file can
> override the default action based on "both" the mail from and rcpt to or
> if a hack exists that allows such definitions?  For example I'm blocking
> the domain of evil.remote.domain in the access file but
> user at local.domain wants mail from spammer at evil.remote.domain but only
> from spammer at evil.remote.domain.  In that example, I'm only aware that I
> can either OK spammer at evil.remote.domain and thus allow it to email
> everyone or I use the spamfriend rule on user at local.domain which means
> he'll get spam from all remote.domains.
> 
> I know I can define this kind of rule in Mailscanner but that also means
> I have to accept all mail from spammer at evil.remote.domain which leads to
> undeliverable bounces and more wasted traffic and cpu cycles.
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> -=B
AFAIK the access file is all or nothing. You would have to allow all from the
evil spammer, and then let MailScanner sort it out.
Sounds like you need to lart a luser.


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