True, but I have always set up Sendmail that way, using the access file like an allow list.
I would like postfix to be setup in a similar fashion -----Original Message----- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 5:40 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: RE: postfix ignoring access file? > Date: Monday, May 16, 2016 19:38:56 +0000 > From: "Gomes, Rich" <gomes-r...@aramark.com> > > Thank you. > > My goal is for any IPs in the access file to be allowed and any not > listed in access to be rejected with Relay Denied Just like using the > access file in Sendmail... > > Thanks, > > Rich I don't believe that that is how the sendmail "access" (/etc/mail/access) file/db works. In my experience, and double checking the documentation: <http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/anti_spam.html#access_db> you can use the sendmail "access" file to explicitly reject (or explicitly accept, in the case that other rules would reject) a message - based on various address parameters. But anything *not included in that file is accepted by default*. You can have other rules, likely including rules in the access file, that reject by default, but the standard usage of the access file is explicit reject, not explicit accept.
