MailScanner & CentOS5/Sendmail

[Julian Field]

Henry Kwan wrote:
> Gerard Cleary <gcle <at> smcaus.com.au> writes:
>
>   
>> Our system uses Centos 4.5 and Sendmail.
>> /var/spool/mqueue has modes 700 and ownership root.mail
>> /var/spool/mqueue.in has modes 700 and ownership root.root
>>     
>
> Whoops.
>
> After looking at MailScanner.conf again, I realized my mistake.  I had set "Run
> As User" and "Run As Group" to "mail".  Didn't even see the "(not normally used
> for sendmail)" bit a couple of lines up.  After unsetting them, everything is
> working now.
>
> After sending a few test emails, I noticed that MailScanner/sendmail doesn't
> reject unknown users at the SMTP stage but rather it accepts the email for
> delivery and then a DSN is generated afterwards.
>
> How do you get sendmail to reject at the SMTP stage like postfix does with
> "relay_recipients.db"?
>   
You need FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) I think. It is certainly *very* 
possible and quite simple to do in sendmail. I always thought it did it 
by default :-)

Jules

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