log of rejected messages

On a Linux Suse server I have a list of senders to REJECT in /etc/mail/access
Where is the log of rejected messages?

"PiEmme" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On a Linux Suse server I have a list of senders to REJECT in
> /etc/mail/access Where is the log of rejected messages?

Usually, in Linux it's /var/log/maillog with a standard /etc/syslog.conf.
You can find all messages that match a particular string, such as "reject"
or "from=username" by using this simple script, invoked as (e.g.) "findmail
reject":

#!/usr/bin/env bash
logfile=`awk '/^mail\./ {print $2}' /etc/syslog.conf`
if [ `grep -l $1 $logfile` ]; then
egrep "`grep $1 $logfile | grep -v pop3d | \
cut -d':' -f 4 | sed -e 's/ //g' | sort | \
uniq | paste -s -d'|' -`" $logfile
else echo "No matches found in $logfile ..."
fi
#########


tony

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On 3 Nov 2003 04:33:46 -0800, PiEmme <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On a Linux Suse server I have a list of senders to REJECT in /etc/mail/access
> Where is the log of rejected messages?

In SuSE the mail log is usually /var/log/mail, or at least that is true
for sendmail 8.11 in 7.3, sendmail 8.12 in 8.0, and postfix in 8.2
(although, postfix also has mail.err, mail.info, and mail.warn).

Try: ls /var/log/mail*

If you are attempting to control worms or spam, rejecting senders is least
reliable, since they are almost always random/forged.

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