Sendmail Spam control
 

I have never used the send mail spam control.
I would like to setup rules to reject or discard emails from certain addresses and domains. like stoping 123@yahoo.com and then say everything from @hotmail.com

I am not for sure on hor to setup the domain style

Question? Are you trying to stop email from being relayed through your sendmail or are you wanting to create a filter to stop emails from being delivered to your user(s) email addresses?

I want to create a filter to stop the emails from being delivered.

I would like to setup rules to reject or discard emails from certain addresses and domains. like stoping 123@yahoo.com and then say everything from @hotmail.com


You could use the /etc/mail/access file.
In this case you would insert the following lines:
123@yahoo.com REJECT "Not allowed"
hotmail.com RELAY

I hope this helps.
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Will the REJECT work for hotmail.com

If you are using sendmail to act as your incoming email server, initpcsys's solution is the easiest way. Just remember to have either sendmail to rebuild your access.db or do it manually at the terminal console by entering

makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access

and yes REJECT will work as well for hotmail.com

Is there a good email filtering program out there that will scan into emails and reject or just drop them completely if it is junk email based upon your setup criteria

No perfect solution - but spamassassin for linux helps on the pop3 side.

http://spamassassin.org

thanks I think this will work. everything else seems to only be for users not servers.