relay_recipients issue with spamsnake on ubuntu 8.04

[filfish]

Hi

We've been running the perfect spamsnake for about 8 months on ubuntu 8.04 we're mostly happy with it excluding a couple of issues we're working on in another thread.

We've been using the relay_recipients file with just the domain in
@anydomain.com OK

But have now sorted out the scheduling of exporting the 8000 email addresses from our exchange box over to the spamsnake, so I tried filing the relay recipients file with the 8000+ emails all with a space and OK at the end, ran postmap /etc/postfix/relay_recipients and even gave postfix a restart.

even with that done we still see emails to <anyone>@anydomain.com getting through even though those email addresses are not in the relay_recipient file.

Am i missing another step or using the wrong file even?

cheers

Phil

[Rocky]

Stupid question but have you commented out @anydomain.com OK? If you didn't, that would be your reason why emails are still going through.

[filfish]

Originally Posted by Rocky

Stupid question but have you commented out @anydomain.com OK? If you didn't, that would be your reason why emails are still going through.

Yes, I renamed the original relay_recipients to relay_recipients.old then created a new file with all the emails in and did the postmap on the new file.

Although I've not yet had a good look through the traffic this morning, as of midnight last night there was a significant drop in traffic, I'll try to look through to see any email addresses that shouldn't be there

[filfish]

Ok, having had a quick look through the recent messages, emails are still flowing to addresses not in my relay_recipients file, although it's not the end of the world it would be nice to tie this one down.

Cheers

[Rocky]

Hey,

Make sure to delete the relay_recipients.db file also and then repostmap your new relay_recipients file so that it recreates the db file.

Restart postfix and you should be good to go.

[filfish]

Well, I did as advised, deleted the relay_recipients.db file deleted all versions of my relay_recipients file to ensure I didn't use the wrong one, then added the 8200 email addresses to a new relay_recipients file, ran "postmap /etc/postfix/relay_recipents" restarted postfix and for good measure even restarted the server.

After a few days of testing I can confirm that <any_rubbish@mydomain.com> still comes through, but oddly, it is only @mydomain.com that get through so it is filtering against the domain name, just not the full email address.