Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:03:54 -0800 (PST) From: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, edwin@mavetju.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: don't understand the message in maillog Message-ID: <20020218160354.1733.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200202180336.OAA14525@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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Hi Tony Thank you for your help I would like to know now how do I prevent someone to use my server? Thank you --- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> wrote: > I usually find that a line like that is an > indication that sendmail > has rejected the mail--it has a zero size and no > recipients. > > You should actually find that somewhere in the log > shortly before that > line is an entry like: > > Feb 17 04:11:31 email sendmail[24444]: EAA24444: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<jone001@hotmail.com>, > relay=[208.254.57.2], reject=..... > > Where the "....." at the end is the rejection code, > and an English > explanation for the rejection. > > The ruleset may also be something different, but the > anti-spam, anti-relay > stuff usually starts with check_ > > Tony > -- > Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 > 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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