Re: [PLUG] Mail Question

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:34:20PM -0500, Doug Crompton said:
> I am running 8.11.6 sendmail. Guess I should update. BUT...
> 
> I do have access.db installed and the appropriate commands in sendmail.cf
> and I have defined the REJECT entries in access and made access.db BUT it
> does not seem to work...
> 
> Access example -
> 
> man REJECT
> 
> sending mail locally to man still accepts it.
> 
> any ideas?

The line needs to be 
To:man@        ERROR:550 This address does not send or accept email

To: is important, as is ERROR:

and then put
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')
in sendmail.mc

And this is absolutely necessary.

> Doug
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Stephen Gran wrote:
> >
> > I think, looking over the system where I have this arrangement, I
> > mispoke, or spoke too broadly.  The error:nouser setting works in
> > virtusertable, not aliases, so you need to do some other hackery to make
> > it work - fortunately, there are already m4 macros for all of it :)
> > You'll need to set FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients') in sendmail.mc for
> > this trick to work.  Then in your access file, put:
> > To:bin@        ERROR:550 This address does not send or accept email
> >
> > Or whatever address or error message you want.  This is just a
> > cut-n-paste, so sprinkle to taste.
> >
> > HTH,
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