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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:17:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rejected mail hosts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007201516340.13003-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000719061416.A97269@localhost.localdomain>

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, David J. Kanter wrote:

> In my daily output message occasionally has a listing under "rejected mail
> hosts" and I don't know why they are being rejected. How can I determine why
> sendmail has rejected them?

	They are rejected according to the rules in sendmail.cf. By
default, these rules reject hostnames that don't resolve, like this one. 

> Today I got:
> 
> Checking for rejected mail hosts:
>    1 pc166.gits.fr
>    
> In my sendmail.cf I have the RBL feature enabled. But could this rejection
> also be due to relaying? I grep'ped the maillog for the address but came up
> with nothing. 
> 

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