From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 15:20:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE7F16A4CA for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:20:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFB143D45 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:20:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k5TFKBsU070826; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:20:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:20:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Greg Groth Message-ID: <20060629152011.GC93265@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44A3ECBF.9080808@gregs-garage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44A3ECBF.9080808@gregs-garage.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail & vacation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:20:12 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 29), Greg Groth said: > Are there any tutorials available on how to set up vacation to > operate with a whitelist? My users are requesting I add this > functionality to our mail server, but I don't want to create an open > bounce. What I wish to do is take a list of domain names of our > customer base and allow vacation to only respond to that list. > Googling brought back info on using whitelists to use in conjunction > with spam blocking, but I haven't been able to weed through all of > the results regarding spam to locate anything regarding whitelisting > vacation. From the vacation man page, I see that there is an -x > option that allows blacklisting, but nothing on whitelisting. Any > ideas? One way would be to use procmail to only forward incoming messages to vacation if they match your customer list. Or you could add a whitelist feature to vacation and submit the patches :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com