Suppose you're running a single domain, bar.com, and you want to disable
mail to a particular user whose mailbox is too large. I want to do this
by adding this to the sendmail access file:


foo@bar.com 451 User's Mailbox Is Full - Try Again Later

This is fine when the mail comes from *outside* the box (a FreeBSD 4.11-stable
machine). But ... when mail originates *on* the box - say from a shell
account - the mail is delivered locally and appears to bypass sendmail
access processing. Is there a way to force the locally initiated mail to
work the same way as remotely initiated mail?

TIA,
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Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> writes:

> Suppose you're running a single domain, bar.com, and you want to disable
> mail to a particular user whose mailbox is too large. I want to do this
> by adding this to the sendmail access file:
>
>
> foo@bar.com 451 User's Mailbox Is Full - Try Again Later
>
> This is fine when the mail comes from *outside* the box (a FreeBSD 4.11-stable
> machine). But ... when mail originates *on* the box - say from a shell
> account - the mail is delivered locally and appears to bypass sendmail
> access processing. Is there a way to force the locally initiated mail to
> work the same way as remotely initiated mail?

Which sendmail version do you use?

In sendmail 8.12.0+ installed as not set root id (default) message sent
locally to such "tmp blocked" address stays in client queue.

http://www.sendmail.org/security/secure-install.php

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Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> writes:
>
>> Suppose you're running a single domain, bar.com, and you want to disable
>> mail to a particular user whose mailbox is too large. I want to do this
>> by adding this to the sendmail access file:
>>
>>
>> foo@bar.com 451 User's Mailbox Is Full - Try Again Later
>>
>> This is fine when the mail comes from *outside* the box (a FreeBSD 4.11-stable
>> machine). But ... when mail originates *on* the box - say from a shell
>> account - the mail is delivered locally and appears to bypass sendmail
>> access processing. Is there a way to force the locally initiated mail to
>> work the same way as remotely initiated mail?
>
> Which sendmail version do you use?

8.13.8 not running set root id.

>
> In sendmail 8.12.0+ installed as not set root id (default) message sent
> locally to such "tmp blocked" address stays in client queue.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/security/secure-install.php


Hmmm ... that's not the behavior I am seeing. Upon further investigation
I discovered that the line above needed to be changed to:

foo@ 451 User's Mailbox Is Full ....


That's because mail initiated locally is actually sent to foo@localmachinename.bar.com
which the first rule misses but the second one catches.

However, in no circumstance did I see the behavior you describe - i.e., A message
rejected by an access database rule getting left in the inbound queue.

Does this make sense to you?

Thanks for your time,
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