On Fri, Jul 06, 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > +++ USM Bish [linux-india] <06/07/01 00:41 +0530>: > > access.db ! never gave that at try. AFAIK that is not an > > ASCII text file. Need to do some R of the FMs .... any > > smart clues in this regard ? In other words, how do you > > skin this cat ? > > If you are using sendmail, you'd use the access.db by > > 1. Enabling support for it in sendmail.cf (using the .mc > file) - most stock distro configs have this enabled already. > > 2. Adding an entry like > > gtcdrom.com 550 Get lost - no spam allowed here > > running makemap on it (makemap hash /etc/access.db < > /etc//access). Depending on your unix, it might be dbm or > some other db format - and if you are using a 8.10.x or > newer sendmail (you are using 8.9.3 right now) the paths > have changed to /etc/mail > > See http://www.sendmail.org/faq/ (and > http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html) for this and much > more. There's also a paper on brettglass.com which details > some fairly efficient anti-spam rulesets in sendmail. Don't > have the URL right now, but "brett glass spam sendmail" will > turn it up immediately on google :) > > --suresh Thanks Suresh, it worked like a charm with sendmail 8.9.3 on my present box. I did no RTFM beyond what you wrote ... think I'll do some RTFM now (to understand finer details) ... Bish. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
