Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:17:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rejected mail hosts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007201516340.13003-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000719061416.A97269@localhost.localdomain>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, David J. Kanter wrote:
> In my daily output message occasionally has a listing under "rejected mail
> hosts" and I don't know why they are being rejected. How can I determine why
> sendmail has rejected them?
They are rejected according to the rules in sendmail.cf. By
default, these rules reject hostnames that don't resolve, like this one.
> Today I got:
>
> Checking for rejected mail hosts:
> 1 pc166.gits.fr
>
> In my sendmail.cf I have the RBL feature enabled. But could this rejection
> also be due to relaying? I grep'ped the maillog for the address but came up
> with nothing.
>
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