From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 11:23: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE7037B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8862E43FDD for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h26JN0Ig005958; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:23:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h26JN0Va005955; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:23:00 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:23:00 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Nigel Soon Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rejected mail hosts In-Reply-To: <20030306182420.GA320@sundive.homeunix.net> Message-ID: <20030306122126.E5931@wonkity.com> References: <20030306182420.GA320@sundive.homeunix.net> 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, 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