Sendmail on freebsd

[Ian Smith]

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 657, Issue 5, Message: 18
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:26:48 +0100 Bernt Hansson <bah at bananmonarki.se> wrote:
 > Hello list!
 > 
 > Have a question or more about /etc/mail/access.
 > 
 > Is this list appropiatefor this kind of question?

I don't see why not.

 > If not, please point me in the right direction.
 > 
 > If  i put this in /etc/mail/access
 > 
 > com    REJECT
 > 
 > Does that reject all domains that contain com
 > or just TLD com.

The latter, BUT unless things have changed, you need to specify what 
kind of header it appears in, e.g (and yes, these are real entries):

Connect:xyz		REJECT
From:xyz		REJECT

The former rejects all mail 'Received: from' any hostname *.xyz
The latter rejects mail with 'envelope-from' any address@*.xyz

For example, this (digest) message had first headers of:

Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [8.8.178.116])
    by xxxx.nimnet.asn.au (x.yy.z/x.yy.z) with ESMTP id v04C0M0x055062
    for <smithi at nimnet.asn.au>; Wed, 4 Jan 2017 23:00:28 +1100 (EST)
    (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org)

Return-Path: is often, usually, but NOT always = envelope-from

Connect:mx2.freebsd.org		ACCEPT
 would accept all mail 'Received: from' hostname mx2.freebsd.org

From:freebsd.org		ACCEPT
 would accept mail from or _claiming_ to be from any address at freebsd.org

That is: envelope-from addresses, as most other headers, can be forged, 
whereas Connect: hostnames are returned by DNS lookup on the IP address, 
and generally speaking can be relied upon - if your DNS server can be :)

cheers, Ian