stupid question about sendmail

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 12:45+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:

> 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.

One final(?) note: You might need this line as well:

FEATURE(blacklist_recipients)

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