CIDR netmasks with sendmail

sendmail does not support CIDR notation in its maps.

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.41
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.42

The cidrexpand script in the contrib subdirectory of the sendmail source may be used to expand CIDR netmasks for use in sendmail databases.

Example access map:
10. OK
192.168.1.128/25 OK

cidrexpand usage:
# ./cidrexpand < /etc/mail/access | makemap hash /etc/mail/access

In my environment, Net::CIDR is in @INC for /usr/local/bin/perl, not /usr/bin/perl, so I explicitly call the former interpreter when running cidrexpand.

# /usr/local/bin/perl cidrexpand < /etc/mail/access | makemap hash /etc/mail/access

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CIDR netmasks with sendmail

Last modified: 2006/06/19