From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 15:17:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C474E37B844 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:17:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13031; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:17:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Rejected mail hosts In-Reply-To: <20000719061416.A97269@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message