From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 15:46:44 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 67B0237B40B for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:46:36 -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 g5RMkOuF007330; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:46:24 -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 g5RMkOtD007327; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:46:24 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:46:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rejected mail hosts In-Reply-To: <200206271510290824.0A2DBC5F@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 > >Be happy that sendmail is turning them away! Check your > >/var/log/maillog for more specifics on why they are being rejected. > > Should they be reported to the appropriate (if any) abuse email? For most things, there's not really enough information for that; sendmail is stopping them before they can do anything. And they aren't necessarily abusers, they could just have configuration problems. -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