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cdb access_db lookups don't return a result

From Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups comp.mail.sendmail
Subject cdb access_db lookups don't return a result
Date 2026-02-01 12:51 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20260201125137.54caee1c@ryz.dorfdsl.de> (permalink)

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Hello!

I am currently testing the Debian CDB builds.

Version 8.18.1
 Compiled with: DANE HAVE_SSL_CTX_dane_enable MAX_TLSA_RR=64 DNSMAP
                IPV6_FULL LDAPMAP LDAP_NETWORK_TIMEOUT LDAP_REFERRALS
LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MAXDAEMONS=64 MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB=5.3 CDB=2 NIS
NISPLUS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF SOCKETMAP STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS TLS_EC
                TLS_VRFY_PER_CTX USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT XDEBUG
    OS Defines: ADDRCONFIG_IS_BROKEN HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASFLOCK
                HASGETDTABLESIZE HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME2 HASGETUSERSHELL
                HASINITGROUPS HASLSTAT HASNICE HASRANDOM HASRRESVPORT
                HASSETREGID HASSETREUID HASSETRLIMIT HASSETSID
HASSETVBUF HASURANDOMDEV HASSTRERROR HASUNAME HASUNSETENV HASWAITPID
                IDENTPROTO IP_SRCROUTE NEEDSGETIPNODE REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC
                SFS_VFS USE_DOUBLE_FORK USE_SIGLONGJMP USESETEUID
Kernel symbols: /boot/vmlinux
     Conf file: /etc/mail/submit.cf (default for MSP)
     Conf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (default for MTA)
      Pid file: /var/run/sendmail/mta/sendmail.pid (default)
 libsm Defines: SM_CONF_LDAP_INITIALIZE SM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE
                SM_CONF_LONGLONG SM_CONF_MEMCHR SM_CONF_MSG SM_CONF_SEM
                SM_CONF_SIGSETJMP SM_CONF_SHM SM_CONF_SSIZE_T
SM_CONF_STDBOOL_H SM_CONF_STDDEF_H SM_CONF_SYS_CDEFS_H SM_CONF_UID_GID
                DO_NOT_USE_STRCPY SM_HEAP_CHECK SM_OS=sm_os_linux
SM_VA_STD FFR Defines: _FFR_BADRCPT_SHUTDOWN _FFR_MAIL_MACRO
_FFR_MTA_STS _FFR_NO_PIPE _FFR_QUEUE_SCHED_DBG _FFR_REJECT_NUL_BYTE
                _FFR_RESET_MACRO_GLOBALS _FFR_RHS _FFR_SHM_STATUS
                _FFR_SKIP_DOMAINS _FFR_TLS_ALTNAMES _FFR_M_ONLY_IPV4
Canonical name: deb-test.dorfdsl.de
 UUCP nodename: deb-test.dorfdsl.de
        a.k.a.: [IPv6:2a01:170:118f:2:0:0:0:f888]
     Conf file: /etc/mail/submit.cf (selected)
      Pid file: /var/run/sendmail/msp/sendmail.pid (selected)


I have:
root@deb-test:~# cdb -d /etc/mail/access.db 
+11,5:Connect:127->RELAY
+14,1:GreetPause:127->0
+14,1:ClientRate:127->0
+14,1:ClientConn:127->0
+16,5:Connect:IPv6:::1->RELAY
+14,5:Connect:10.0.0->RELAY
+19,1:GreetPause:IPv6:::1->0
+19,1:ClientRate:IPv6:::1->0
+19,1:ClientConn:IPv6:::1->0
+11,4:GreetPause:->5000
+11,2:ClientRate:->10
+11,2:ClientConn:->10
+16,6:Spam:postmaster@->FRIEND
+11,6:Spam:abuse@->FRIEND
+10,6:Spam:spam@->FRIEND
+7,6:reject@->REJECT
+21,46:From:googlegroups.com->ERROR:5.7.1:554 Google Groups not allowed
here +20,54:From:www.example.org->ERROR:5.7.1:554 www.example.org spam
not accepted here +16,50:From:example.org->ERROR:5.7.1:554 example.org
spam not accepted here +15,6:Connect:169.254->REJECT
+15,6:Connect:192.0.2->REJECT
+11,6:Connect:224->REJECT
+11,6:Connect:255->REJECT

root@deb-test:~# grep ^K /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Kresolve host -a<OKR> -T<TEMP>
Karith arith
Kmacro macro
Kdequote dequote
Kaccess cdb -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access
root@deb-test:~# 

The file access seems to work, I checked with auditd and also added
entries (without colons) that worked.

So I assumed that the following works, but the stuff with the colons
does not seem to work:

root@deb-test:~# sendmail -bt 
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> /map access Connect:IPv6:::1
map_lookup: access (Connect:IPv6:::1) no match (0)
> /map access reject@
map_lookup: access (reject@) returns REJECT (0)
> /map access Connect:192.0.2
map_lookup: access (Connect:192.0.2) no match (0)

On other Debian systems with db5.3, such lookups work.

What are I am doing wrong here?

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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cdb access_db lookups don't return a result Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-01 12:51 +0100
  Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2026-02-01 20:01 +0000
    Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2026-02-01 21:10 +0000
      Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2026-02-01 21:21 +0000
        Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2026-02-01 21:33 +0000
        Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result Claus Aßmann <INVALID_NO_CC_REMOVE_IF_YOU_DO_NOT_POST_ml+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@esmtp.org> - 2026-02-02 01:13 -0500
          Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2026-02-02 08:10 +0000
  Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result Claus Aßmann <INVALID_NO_CC_REMOVE_IF_YOU_DO_NOT_POST_ml+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@esmtp.org> - 2026-02-02 03:05 -0500
    Re: cdb access_db lookups don't return a result Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-02 09:43 +0100

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