Re: Securing Sendmail 8.11.6-23 from spammers

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, gti617 wrote:

> OK lets fix this up a little. It seems that sendmail has no access to
> /etc/mail/access file.
> When I type the changes in the following cases; from REJECT to RELAY. And
> creating the access.db file. And restarting sendmail.
> I still can send e-mail to myself. Any comments! Thanks
> CASE 1
> # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf file for a description
> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> # package.
> #
> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> localhost.localdomain REJECT
> localhost REJECT
> 127.0.0.1 REJECT
> CASE 2
> # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf file for a description
> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> # package.
> #
> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> localhost.localdomain RELAY
> localhost RELAY
> 127.0.0.1 RELAY

I'm not sure what you're trying to say?  After you made the changes to 
/etc/mail/access did you recreate the access.db file?  It's a hash.  You 
need to do 

makemap hash access < access 

from within the /etc/mail directory.  You don't need to restart sendmail 
for this to "take".

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer