From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 21:19:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2853037B9F2 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06023; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:19:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:19:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps ax/sendail Message-ID: <20000607231912.A5191@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "keith@mail.telestream.com" on Wed Jun 7 20:58:16 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 07), keith@mail.telestream.com said: > >From time to time I see entries like the following in a ps ax on > our mail server. It's curious because of the IDENT. I don't think I > see this in normal mail transactions and am wondering if this is > something to be worried about. > > sendmail: server IDENT:root@ithotel.dk [194.255.38.180] cmd read That just means that "ithotel.dk" initiated an SMTP connection to your machine, and sendmail used the auth protocol to determine the username of the sender. Otherwise, you would just see "server ithotel.dk". Nothing to be worried about. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message