Re: [vps-mail] Testing relays.ordb.org

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 31 May 2005 23:38:53 -0500, Steve Yates <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 	OK all you experts, I just know I'm missing something simple.  In
> my .mc I have:
> 
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', `"550 Email rejected due to sending
> server misconfiguration - see http://www.ordb.org/faq/\#why_rejected";')
> 
> I have rebuilt the .cf file and restarted sendmail.  There is a whole
> section added to the .cf for the above.  According to...
> 
> http://www.ordb.org/faq/#usage_sendmail
> 
> ...if I set up in /etc/hosts:
> 
> 127.0.0.2  [reversed-ip].relays.ordb.org
> 
> Then Sendmail should refuse the connection right?

Depends whether or not the IP address trying to access the MTA is granted
explicit permission (OK or RELAY) in /etc/mail/access - permission granted
(or indeed revoked) in there overrides DNSBLs.

Secondly, I'm not sure, but I think sendmail always uses DNS and never
looks at /etc/hosts.

- -- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from 
bad judgment.
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