hi,
Do we have to be a root to edit the access file..
Actually i want to block a particular egroup/mailing list.
Does the following method works for them also.
If not can u please ley me know how do i block a mailing list r an egroup.
one more thing, can we use a .procmailrc to block address.
If so can u tell me how do i use a .procmailrc file..
ciao'
sasha
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Sandeep Sharma wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > I am using redhat linux 6.2. I want to block a couple of email addresses.
> >
> > can you tell me how can i block an email address/ a mailing list.. Can
> >
> > u please help me out.
> >
> > ciao'
> >
> > sasha
> >
> You need to edit /etc/mail/access. If you want to block an address
> range to block all of a company's mail servers, you can use something
> like:
>
> 63.88.133 550 YesMail Forbidden Manually.
>
> If you want to block mail from a speciufic address, something like this
> works well:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 No Spam allowed.
>
> After you edit the file, you need to rebuild the database. An easy way
> to do that is to run make from the /etc/mail directory. If you don't
> have make installed, use the command "makemap hash access <access" to
> rebuild the database.
>
> The run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart".
>
> Mikkel
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