stupid question about sendmail

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 12:03+0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> > 1. Edit the /etc/mail/access file.
> > 
> > 2. Insert a line like this one:
> > 
> > To:mailbox at some.domain.tld REJECT
> 
> tried too.
> 
> doesn't work.

Make sure you edit the /etc/mail/access file, not the 
/etc/mail/access.db file.

The latter is a hashmap used by sendmail for rapid lookup. The former 
is the source used to generate the /etc/mail/access.db file.

Sendmail will never read the /etc/mail/access file.

Don't forget to run the make command afterwards to update the 
/etc/mail/access.db file, and other changed files.

Your <hostname>.mc file must contain this line exactly as shown:

FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access')

Yes, sendmail will indeed access the /etc/mail/access.db file, not the 
/etc/mail/access file.

If you changed the .mc file, then install the corresponding .cf files 
using the make install command.

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