Blocking an individual email address....again

2006-02-16 Thread James Csoka
I'm reposting this with some more info.any help would be greatly
appreciated.

I have a mail server (it also functions as a firewall) running freebsd5.4,
with mailscanner, openwebmail, and sendmail.  I wish to block an individual
email address, but I do not want to mark it as spam.  My first solution was
to add the blacklist feature to the sendmail.mc file, and recreate the .cf
file, which I did.  I then added the line To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  REJECT to the
/etc/mail/access file, and ran make maps.  I also had added the line
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  REJECT.

This then blocked that address from sending email to people on my internal
network.  When I tested it from outside my network I used openwebmail as a
web interface to send email to that address, and it failed.  Which was what
I wanted.  However, from inside my network, using Outlook, you can send
email to that address without a problem.

It seems as if the access.db is doing it's job.  When using openwebmail, the
smtp server rejects any attempt to send mail to that address.  however,
locally, it does not.  When i'm sitting in front of my windows client, I can
use Outlook and send email to that address without a problem.

Does anyone know why via a web interface, the access file rules would apply,
yet they would be ignored when sending mail from inside the network using
Outlook to send external email?



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Re: Blocking an individual email address....again

2006-02-16 Thread Derek Ragona
To debug this you need to kick up the logging on sendmail, add the loglevel 
option to your sendmail options in rc.conf:

-O LogLevel=80

You will need a loglevel value fairly high, like 80.  You can then watch or 
just look at the sendmail log file:

/var/log/maillog

And see what is actually happening.

You should be aware that there are typically 2 to 3 separate instances of 
sendmail running passing the mail around.


Hope this helps.

-Derek


At 09:39 AM 2/16/2006, James Csoka wrote:

I'm reposting this with some more info.any help would be greatly
appreciated.

I have a mail server (it also functions as a firewall) running freebsd5.4,
with mailscanner, openwebmail, and sendmail.  I wish to block an individual
email address, but I do not want to mark it as spam.  My first solution was
to add the blacklist feature to the sendmail.mc file, and recreate the .cf
file, which I did.  I then added the line To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  REJECT to the
/etc/mail/access file, and ran make maps.  I also had added the line
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  REJECT.

This then blocked that address from sending email to people on my internal
network.  When I tested it from outside my network I used openwebmail as a
web interface to send email to that address, and it failed.  Which was what
I wanted.  However, from inside my network, using Outlook, you can send
email to that address without a problem.

It seems as if the access.db is doing it's job.  When using openwebmail, the
smtp server rejects any attempt to send mail to that address.  however,
locally, it does not.  When i'm sitting in front of my windows client, I can
use Outlook and send email to that address without a problem.

Does anyone know why via a web interface, the access file rules would apply,
yet they would be ignored when sending mail from inside the network using
Outlook to send external email?



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