From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 20:49:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99766106566B for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:49:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@magnesium.net) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851BD8FC0C for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1070) id 0B058DA888; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:49:12 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: John Levine Message-ID: <20100926204911.GA42850@thought.org> References: <20100926182200.GA40516@thought.org> <20100926203720.66674.qmail@joyce.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100926203720.66674.qmail@joyce.lan> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kline@magnesium.net Subject: Re: /var/log/maillog X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:49:10 -0000 On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:37:20PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > >Sep 26 11:13:47 ethic dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, > >rip=10.47.0.230, lip=10.47.0.230, TLS > >Sep 26 11:14:48 ethic dovecot: IMAP(kline): Connection closed bytes=824/490 > > OK, you logged in, checked your mail, and logged out. > > >Sep 26 11:15:07 ethic sm-mta[15070]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=109.106.10.75.sumtel.ua, > >arg2=127.0.0.4, relay=109.106.10.75.sumtel.ua [109.106.10.75], reject=550 5.7.1 Rejected: > >109.106.10.75 listed at sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > >p1 11:15 [4598] > > A 'bot in the Ukraine attempted to send mail, and your MTA rejected it > since it was blacklisted. > > Those entries are all perfectly normal. > > Not to belabor the obvious, but you need to tell us what you did, what > you expected to happen, what happened instead, and the log entries > showing what was going on while it happened. > > R's, > John well, i fibbed about napping, but have discovered the following: from my freebsd server, ethic, i can, as root, get mail out to my shell account here at magnesium.net. so far, that's about it. I _did_ a pkgdb -F which seemed to correct much in that database. i have send mail to the test acct at freebsd.org. i haven't seen anything. nutshell: it looks as tho i can send mail as root [from ethic]. i will now try my desktop and see what happens. -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | kline@magnesium.net Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant