[SATLUG] Sendmail and MailScanner

Vern Davis vern.davis at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 08:56:38 CST 2006


On 12/29/06, Geoff <geoff at w5omr.shacknet.nu> wrote:
> Daniel J. Givens wrote:
> > Geoff wrote:
> >
> >> I don't want a work around on this... I want to know why access.db isn't
> >> working.
> >>
> >
> > Darn...I was going to say,"Use procmail or sieve."
> >
> > Did you restart sendmail after you rebuilt the access.db? I didn't
> > notice it mentioned in your detailed account. No assumptions in
> > troubleshooting, right?
> >
>
> oh, yeah - sendmail and MailScanner were both stopped while I made the
> changes, and then restarted after the database was updated with
> 'makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access'
>
> As we say sometimes on the electronic bench when things don't appear to
> be working correctly for no good reason...
>
> FM
>

You might try a makemap -v and see what it says is going on.

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