Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:39:31 -0500 From: "James Csoka" <jimcsoka@dominionfirstmortgage.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Blocking an individual email address....again Message-ID: <013b01c6330f$2e411120$2e07a8c0@domfirst.local> References: <20060215162403.2494C16A422@hub.freebsd.org> <20060215223010.GA53246@ns.museum.rain.com>
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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:user@example.com REJECT to the /etc/mail/access file, and ran make maps. I also had added the line user@example.com 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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