Re: [vps-mail] Sendmail - going from spammers.db to access.db

[Weldon Whipple <weldon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marjolein Katsma wrote:

> Luckily I have a well-organized spammers file although I hadn't maintained it much it a while. Everything is sorted by TLD, TLD's by general/area/country, and within those blocks I had alphabetical email addresses and then alphabetical domains.
>
> So - what I did was:
> - keep the same ordering for access, but move *only* the domains
>  
FWIW, sendmail considers access.db unordered. (It's a hashed database, 
after all). ... so order is unimportant.

> - keep the separate email addresses in spammers (but remove the domains): that way there could be no interference
>  
The access.db will also support complete e-mail addresses (in addition 
to domains). (... but you probably know that already. It also has many 
features you probably will never want to know about ... :-)

> - reject messages wil be different so I'll be able to see if any of those email addresses still "triggers"; but I expect they're outdated anyway.
> - if I no longer get any rejects from the info in spammers, I can just discard it (I'll wait a while before doing that, though)
>
> Apart from what I "moved" from spammers, I added the inteded To: rules to access.db - and have already seen rejects based on that (so access.db is working).
> It's also nice that with access I can make up my own messages (so the spams from "Dell Hell" get their very own reject message now ;-)
>  
I should have mentioned this earlier, but access.db syntax is documented in the "cf/README" file. 

VPS1 (after vinstall sendmail): ~/usr/local/sendmail/cf/README
VPS2: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README

The cf/README also documents the defines (etc.) to add to your sendmail mc file to set options in the resulting sendmail cf file ...

Weldon



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