Hi members ,

I am trying to create a custom ruleset in sendmail, but not getting through, please guide me in right direction.

I made following entry in sendmail.mc

LOCAL_CONFIG
Kspamsubject hash /etc/mail/spamsubject
HSubject: $>ScreenSubject

LOCAL_RULESETS
SScreenSubject
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And now if you actually tell us what you're trying to do, version/distro of Linux, and exactly WHAT is not working, and what error(s) you're seeing, we can perhaps help.

Thanks for reply

I am using CentOS 5 and trying to block certain mails in sendmail depending on subject of mail

Thanks

You don't need to mess with sendmail.cf.
If you use spamassassin or some other spam filtering software, you can create a custom rule to block mail based on the subject.
Or you can use procmail to filter mail based on subject. Create a ~/.procmalrc like this (replace <Offending subject> with the subject you want to filter out):
Regards

While you shouldn't mess with sendmail.cf directly, you can just add the following to your sendmail.mc and then "./Build sendmail.cf" and "./Build install-cf":
While you're mucking around with sendmail.mc, you should consider putting in a few blacklist lines:
You have to build the file "/etc/mail/BAD-SUBJECTS" with periods between character strings because a space is a token delimiter,

For more info, look at the knecht.mc file in sendmail-8.14.4/cf/cf, look at 4.3.3.1 and 4.3.3.5 in The Bat Book, or do this:
vi op.txt and look for Define.Header. There is a section on the "H line" there.

You should know that blocking spam using "Subject:" line strings is like playing Whack-A-Mole at the state fair. As others have written here, use spamassassin. It has tons of plugins and there are community-based rules that you can fetch and experiment with.

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Nice one, agentbuzz. Like alot of others, I do my filtering further downstream, but it's nice to have a solution that uses sendmail directives directly. There is a special dark art to configuring it.