From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 7:37:19 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 07:37:16 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (unknown [202.169.133.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC5F37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from suresh@localhost) by mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/mjollnir-1.0) id f04FWMU27188 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:02:22 +0530 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:02:22 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Refuses valid email. Message-ID: <20010104210222.A27153@oyeindia.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010104081307.024a7220@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010104081307.024a7220@127.0.0.1>; from redwards@meccamediagroup.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:23:27AM -0700 Organization: Hopelessly Disorganized X-Operating-System: Linux mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com 2.2.18 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rolf Edwards rearranged electrons thusly: > My sendmail is rejecting email for some strange reason. I am not sure > exactly why it is refusing this particular email. > The host that it is coming from is "131.137.96.18" which resolves into > "mail.dnd.ca". The only thing that I can see is that dnd.ca is different > than the originating host. But at the same time there is a MX record for > dnd.ca as follows: dnd.ca seems to be returning a SERVFAIL from several nameservers ... the others resolve, however, dnd.ca doesnt resolve --suresh > Non-authoritative answer: > dnd.ca preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.dnd.ca > Jan 3 08:08:53 charizard sendmail[8344]: f03F8qT08344: ruleset=check_mail, > arg1=, relay=mail.dnd.ca [131.137.96.18], reject=451 4.1.8 > ... Domain of sender address blah@dnd.ca does not resolve > Jan 3 08:08:53 charizard sendmail[8344]: f03F8qT08344: from=, > size=1326, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.dnd.ca > [131.137.96.18] -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet efn org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message