Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:23:00 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Nigel Soon <ns@sundive.homeunix.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rejected mail hosts Message-ID: <20030306122126.E5931@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20030306182420.GA320@sundive.homeunix.net> References: <20030306182420.GA320@sundive.homeunix.net>
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Nigel Soon wrote: > I have a list of rejected mail hosts that was emailed to > me in the daily run output. In the list contains a few hosts > I don't know + my machine and localhost. > > What does this mean exactly? Did something go wrong when I was > sending mail or was this from somebody trying to use me as a > relay? Check your /var/log/maillog. Some of these probably are spammers trying to relay, but they can also be something as innocent as broken rDNS for the sender's machine. -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
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