From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 11:15:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B7B37B409 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RIF7uF006636; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:15:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g5RIF7Ol006633; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:15:07 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:15:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rejected mail hosts In-Reply-To: <200206271237460578.09A1EA71@mail.speakeasy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > What does the listing of "Rejected Mail Hosts" in my daily run > output that gets mailed to root? Sometimes there are dozens of > them. Is there anything I should do? Be happy that sendmail is turning them away! Check your /var/log/maillog for more specifics on why they are being rejected. You'll probably find relaying attempts, no reverse DNS, and other spammy reasons that your system is rejecting hosts. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message