[Semibug] sendmail question

Mike Wayne semibug15 at post.wayne47.com
Mon Mar 16 11:45:25 EDT 2020


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:24:06PM -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote:
> Try checking your sendmail.mc and/or sendmail.cf files.

I did that with the grep in the OP.

> Out of curiosity, what is the output from this command?
> 
> grep -Ri blockhelo /etc/mail

Nothing. I'm really confused about where it's finding it.

> On 3/13/20 3:29 PM, Mike Wayne wrote:
> > I'm getting messages like this on a FreeBSD server in /var/log/messages
> >     sm-mta[81517]: 01CKJqXB081517: SYSERR(root): hash map "helo": missing map file /etc/mail/blockhelo.db: No such file or directory
> >
> > Google is NOT finding anything about blockhelo
> > grep helo /etc/mail/*					finds nothing
> > strings `which sendmail` | grep helo			finds nothing
> > grep blockhelo /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/*		finds nothing
> >
> > Clearly, it's a database of some sort, likely used by sendmail.
> > Any pointers of where to look?



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