[ale] sendmail /etc/mail/ip_allow

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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I don't know how easy that setup is to use.... but I have a setup that
I've used for some time now and it has served it's purpose beautifully by
the fact that we have only had 4-5 cases of spam actually gettin through
our setup and they were act'd upon as soon as they were noticed... We
usually end up rejectin several thousand messages a day... If someone
would be interrest'd in my setup I would be willin to share it as I have
for others... It has Aliases, Domain alias, spam blocks (full email, host,
and domain)...
=09Sincerely,
=09Jeremy T. Bouse
=09System Administrator
=09SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc.

On Mon, 18 May 1998, Chris Ricker wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 20:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>
> To: dhamm at itserve.com
> Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [ale] sendmail  /etc/mail/ip_allow
>=20
> On 18 May, David Hamm wrote:
> > Where could I find info on the /etc/ip_allow file? =20
>=20
> I gather you're running Red Hat?  They ship with the cf file configured
> to use Claus A=DFmann's (don't think I'm not proud of myself for getting
> that ess-set to work ;-) rule sets for relaying mail; see his web page
> at http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html for all the
> details or read through your sendmail.cf file if you grok those.
>=20
> Basically, though, here's my understanding of Red Hat's additional
> sendmail files.
>=20
> /etc/mail/deny:
> =09flat text file of user at domain <tab> error msg, one per line
> =09and where "user@" and " <tab> error msg" are optional, of people
> =09to reject and where to tell them to go.
>=20
> =09this has to be converted to the database deny.db by something
> =09like makemap -v /etc/mail/deny < /etc/mail/deny
>=20
> /etc/mail/deny.db
> =09see above
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> /etc/mail/ip_allow
> =09flat text file of sources to relay from, in dotted quad
> =09notation, one per line
>=20
> /etc/mail/name_allow
> =09flat text file of sources to relay from, in domain name
> =09notation (not sure what it's actually called; foo.bar.com, for
> =09example), one per line
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> /etc/mail/relay_allow
> =09flat text file of sites to relay to, in either dotted quad or
> =09domain name notation, one per line
>=20
> Be aware that I sometimes wonder if my understanding is right, since
> name_allow and ip_allow seem almost redundant.  That's what the cf file
> seems to suggest, however.
>=20
> later,
> chris
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> --
> Chris Ricker                                        kaboom at gatech.edu
>=20

   Jeremy T. Bouse - SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc - www.STSI.net
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