Access / Alias Files

[warthog982]

Hey, people -
We're using sendmail to run a couple of small, restrictive email groups that hide actual email addresses behind aliases. Right now, we're setting spammed to death and need a quick way to redirect incoming mail appropriately: does anyone know of some way to set up the access file to only allow inbound mail from accounts pointed to by the alias file and to reject everything else? My thanks in advance...

 

[mbrooks]

From what I have read I assume you want to only allow local services to handle mail.

To accomplish this do add this to your access file

localhost	OK

Rebuild the access DBM

makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access

Restart the Sendmail daemon

# kill -HUP `head -n1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info