> Date: Monday, May 16, 2016 22:44:44 +0000
> From: "Gomes, Rich" <gomes-r...@aramark.com>
<
>> From: Richard
>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 5:40 PM
>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
> 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
You can make it so that the sendmail rejects by default, but simply
putting (only) entries like:
nn.nn.nn.nn OK
into the sendmail access file will *not* cause everything else to be
rejected. As Wietse indicated in his earlier message, that's also how
postfix works.
> As documented since december 1998, if there is no match, then
> no decision is made.
You'll need to figure out what you did to make sendmail reject
connections by default and map that into the appropriate postfix
configuration.
[please do not top-post or include me in your replies - i'm on the
list.]
