Re: validrcptto.cdb patch and /etc/qmail/mkvalidrcptto.reject

"Kristen R." <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:55:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/21/17 2:37 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using dot-qmail extensions including default ones. My qmail
> installation is net-qmail-10.5 patched with
> netqmail-1.05-validrcptto.cdb.patch from qmail.jms1.net.
> 
> I have updated the mkvalidrcptto script to the latest version and now I
> hope to use mkvalidrcptto.reject to block emails. However they are not
> currently being blocked. Using cdbdump I can see that there is an entry
> for the email I want blocked with an additional ':-' in
> /var/qmail/control/validrcptto.cdb
> 
> but the messages aren't get blocked. What have I missed?
> 
> Thanks
> Neil
> 

Neil,

validrcptto is a mechanism to reject all mail except specific ones. Put
in this database your 'valid receipt to' emails addresses. Any other
email address will be rejected.

Example:

in the validrcptto.cdb is [email protected]

rejected will be [email protected]

Kristen
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