From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 14:47:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C4037B417 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:47:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from yokozuna.bsd ([213.10.35.60]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GTANAK00.F6P; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:47:08 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:45:41 +0100 (CET) From: Marco Beishuizen Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen To: "James E. Pace" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rejected mail hosts? In-Reply-To: <20020320100018.Y55951-100000@tigger.pacehouse.com> Message-ID: FreeBSD: 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 Wed, 20 Mar 2002, the wise James E. Pace spoke, and said: > > What causes sendmail on FreeBSD to reject mail hosts? > > My daily security run spewed this out today, and I want that mail. > > Checking for rejected mail hosts: > 3 garlic.com > 1 satellitehealth.com > 1 pobox.com > 1 kidneycare.com > 1 earthlink.net > 1 aol.com > > > Thanks, > > James > > This letter brought to you by: ************************************* > ** "They that can give up James E. Pace ** > ** essential liberty to http://www.PaceHouse.com/ ** > ** obtain a little temporary ** > ** safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin ** > ******************************************************************** > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > This means that the hostnames are unresolvable and sendmail does not accept mail with unresolvable hostnames. I had the same problem and found the solution in the directory /etc/mail. When you update the /etc/mail/access file it should be ok. Look in /etc/mail/README for details on the configuration of the access control file and how to update the database. Marco -- $100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message