From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 18:48:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts11.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8249B37B404 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.128.21]) by tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020218024827.DCWI27257.tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:48:27 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g1I2avi99224; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:36:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001e01c1b826$bd97e140$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "ann kok" Cc: References: <20020218020047.50792.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com> <20020218130747.O494@k7.mavetju.org> Subject: Re: don't understand the message in maillog Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:48:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 06:00:47PM -0800, ann kok wrote: > > Dear all > > > > I would like to know how this message is in the > > maillog > > of the mail server? > > > > What is this meaning? Is it using our mail server? > > > > Feb 17 04:11:31 email sendmail[24444]: EAA24444: > > from=, size=0, class=0, pri=0, > > nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, relay=[208.254.57.2] Yes, this message is using your mail server (otherwise your mail server wouldn't have logged it.) All this message means is that your mail server accepted an e-mail from jone001@hotmail.com of size 0 (!). > You have to find all lines which have the string EAA24444 in it. > If you have them, post them here and more information can be given > about it. Absolutely. The other lines with EAA24444 will show you who the message was to. If it isn't someone who has a mailbox on your server, then your server is being used as an open relay, which doesn't contribute to the decline of e-mail spam. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message