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Old 10-19-2001, 07:56 PM   #1
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Sendmail: Blocking unwanted senders


How can an user in the system block unwanted senders ?
Is there a special file (like .forward) in the user home to
create in order to prevent such addresses ?

the system has the 8.10.2 version of sendmail..

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Old 10-27-2001, 11:56 PM   #2
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Unhappy Blocking Unwanted Senders

Hi There,

I don't much know about it but i know you can block unwanted senders in sendmail through procmail scripts you can configure any rules like if to header contain this adderss move this mail to /dev/null you can totally control your sendmail by using procmail for more information see http://www.procmail.org

Thanks and Regards,

John Lee

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