From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 11:38:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castle.dreaming.org (castle.dreaming.org [209.146.217.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1597137B698 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from cr592943a (cr592943-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.156.38.199]) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eATJbVe01707; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:37:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mit@mitayai.net) From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" To: "Christoph Sold" Cc: Subject: RE: Sendmail rulesets. Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:37:31 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3A2544C5.3070400@i-clue.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That does not seem right... Not every company even HAS an ip address for their domian, especially when they are just using it for mail. after all, for mail, all you need is an MX record.... -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Sold [mailto:so@server.i-clue.de] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 1:03 PM To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail rulesets. 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