Re: Sendmail whitelists

Brian Collins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.intrusions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:11, Robert Wagner wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has come up with a good method for creating a
> whitelist on a sendmail gateway?  
> 
> -Background:  I have been running sendmail successfully for a while.  I am
> interested in
>  locking down a mail gateway a bit further.  Currently, mail comes in from
>  the outside, through a gateway, then on to a final mailserver.  The problem
>  is with spam, since the gateway just looks at the domain and then relays
>  (access file) the mail inside.  If the user doesn't exist, the internal
>  server then tries to return the mail.
>  
>  I would like to create a whitelist of known email addresses, so only they
>  get passed through.  Bad email addresses are stopped/rejected at the
>  gateway.  I see how to reject bad addresses, but there are an unlimited
>  amount of these.
>  
>  The problem is the relay command in the access file only works for the
>  entire domain.  Is there a simple method for doing this?
> 
> Someone mentioned:  define(`_RELAY_FULL_ADDR_', `1')
> But I cannot find any information on where this will work and what exactly
> it does.

Have you considered switching to Postfix?  It does it fairly easily.


-- 
Brian Collins <[email protected]>

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