Re: [vps-mail] Dramatic increase of SPAM during last days

["Ben Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Gapinski - Acuity Creative <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: 
 
> Hi 
>  
> As a test I added both his IP address and full email address to the access 
> file via iManager and he still can't send email. I used: 
>  
> username@xxxxxxxxxx OK 
>  
> Is OK correct or should it be RELAY? 
 
I would probably use the following format: 
 
From:username@xxxxxxxxxx	OK 
 
Additionally, you should do the following: 
 
Find the line in your sendmail mc file that begins: 
 
FEATURE(access_db ... 
 
(It might have `quotes' around access_db ...) 
 
On the line following the access_db feature, insert the line: 
 
FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl 
 
(It is always safer if you include the single quotes ... but they are 
probably optional in this case. If you decide to include the quotes, be sure 
that the first one is a "back" quote, and the second is an apostrophe.)  
 
Ben 
 
(P.S. The latest sendmail documentation recommends that left-hand sides in 
the access file be preceded with one of the tags From:, To:, or Connect: . As 
I read the documentation, it appears that the sendmail.cf first looks for the 
tagged format; then it checks for entries without tags--the default behavior 
in older versions of sendmail. I have converted my access file so that every 
entry begins with either From:, To:, or Connect:) 
 
(P.P.S. You can read about how sendmail checks From:, To: and Connect: at the 
top of p. 316 in the Bat Book, 3rd edition. The delay_checks feature--and how 
it delays blacklist checks until after whitelist checks--is described on p. 
318.) 
 
--  
Bennett Lanford 
ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
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