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Old 10-09-2001
Network blocking mail using sendmail
Hi,
I am using sendmail 8.9.1 and trying to block email from certain domain/user. How could I do that? TQ
# 2  
Old 10-09-2001
Sendmail can easily do that with the Anti-Spam features (whether or not you are refusing the mail for spam-related reasons is irrelevant)

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html

See the section on access_db
# 3  
Old 10-09-2001
Power
When I use this command

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

it says

type hash is not supported by this version
I use solaris 2.6 (sunOS5.6):
# 4  
Old 10-09-2001
hash requires the Berkeley DB library.....
Quote:
NAME
makemap - create database maps for sendmail

SYNOPSIS
makemap [-C file] [-N] [-c cachesize] [-d] [-e] [-f] [-l]
[-o] [-r] [-s] [-u] [-v] maptype mapnam

DESCRIPTION
Makemap creates the database maps used by the keyed map
lookups in sendmail(8). It reads input from the standard
input and outputs them to the indicated mapname.

Depending on how it is compiled, makemap handles up to
three different database formats, selected using the map-
type parameter. They may be

dbm DBM format maps. This requires the ndbm(3)
library.

btree B-Tree format maps. This requires the new Berkeley
DB library.

hash Hash format maps. This also requires the Berkeley
DB library.
# 5  
Old 10-09-2001
Power
After unpacking the DB Berkeley distribution and running the following command (building for UNIX),

../dist/configure

I got the error message..
configure: error: No ar utility found

Perl 5.6.o is used
 
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