From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 10: 2:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC8937B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:02:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA23731; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:06:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3A2544C5.3070400@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:02:45 +0100 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001127 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail rulesets. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > Hi, folks... > > i'm running 4.2-STABLE with an updated sendmail.cf file, and i'm getting > some strange things going on... > > here's a message i get a lot: > > Nov 26 12:44:50 castle sendmail[14916]: eAQHhTu14916: ruleset=check_mail, > arg1=, relay=tomts1.bellnexxia.net > [209.226.175.139], reject=451 4.1.8 ... Domain > of sender address paulf@canadianalliance.ca does not resolve > Nov 26 12:44:50 castle sendmail[14916]: eAQHhTu14916: > from=, size=10963, class=0, nrcpts=0, > proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=tomts1.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.139] > > What exactly can it not resolve? I resolve canadianalliance.ca just fine on > that machine... Both forward and reverse name mapping must resolve. That is, if a.b.com resolves to 1.2.3.4, 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa must resolve to a.b.com. Just check this is the case using either dig or nslookup for the host(s) in question. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message