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Re: [SLE] Preventing a single IP from sending mail
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:03:29 +0200
  • Message-id: <200109061903.f86J3Vq02680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
If you're in a hurry

ipchains -I input 1 -s ip.of.machine --dport 25 -j DENY

otherwise there's a file in /etc/mail called access, that I think is for this
purpose, but you're supposed to build /etc/mail/access.db with it and I
haven't figured out how to do that yet.

regards
Anders

On Thursday 06 September 2001 20.54, Chuck wrote:
> We are using a SuSE 70 machine as our corporate mail server. I need to
> prevent a single IP address from being able to send mail through the
> server. What is the easiest way to do this?
>
> I need a flexible and fast method that can be done anytime, ie, on the
> fly when I am notified that an employee is being terminated.
>
> Thanks,
> CC

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