Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:48:22 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: samy lancher <washville2003@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about "daily run output" Message-ID: <3FE1CC46.6060603@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20031218153541.13664.qmail@web60306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031218153541.13664.qmail@web60306.mail.yahoo.com>
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samy lancher wrote: >Hello, >I have freeBSD 4.5 server. I check "daily run output" sent by server everyday. I notice some change in the output from past few days. >In "Checking for rejected mail hosts:" I see following output: > 14 miltnews.com > 1 ohhello.com > 1 OUTGOING25.myaccountemail.com > 1 OUTGOING121.asapemailaccount.com >This output changes everyday but there is always some thing or the other in this section. Till last week this section used be empty; but i starting getting these kind of messages from past few days. Is it some thing i need to worry about?,. > >thanks in advance, >Naveen. > > > You have logs of mail server activity in /var/log/maillog. Quite often (though *perhaps* not always) a look at the logs will tell you why the mail was rejected. Most likely, spammers with no reverse DNS are being rejected, which is a default Sendmail setting AFAIK. Kevin Kinsey
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