From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 12:40:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.retemail.es (smtp04.iddeo.es [62.81.186.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC0237B641 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:39:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from conway.localdomain ([62.174.72.168]) by smtp04.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.03.02 201-253-122-118-102-20010403) with SMTP id <20011229203936.MGVM4561.smtp04.retemail.es@conway.localdomain> for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:39:36 +0100 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:38:32 +0100 From: F.Xavier Noria To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error from sendmail Message-Id: <20011229213832.2d9240b8.fxn@retemail.es> In-Reply-To: <20011229121235.GD3776@raggedclown.net> References: <20011229103330.28c661b2.fxn@isoco.com> <20011229121235.GD3776@raggedclown.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:12:35 +0100 Cliff Sarginson wrote: : On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:33:30AM +0100, F. Xavier Noria wrote: : > I've found a console filled with messages like this one: : > : > Dec 29 10:21:08 conway sendamil[7618]: fTB9JlK07618: : rule_set=check_mail,> arg_1 = , relay = localhost : [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8> Domain of sender address biz@6x6.net : does not resolve> : "biz@6x6" has just about as much mail bounced from my system as all : the other shithead spammers put together (oh no, luckysurf.com gets : that honour). In short (I use postfix not sendmail, so I am guessing : here) it sounds like sendmail won't accept mail from fake domain : addresses according to it's rule-sets as set up out of the box : on FreeBSD. I would be happy if I were you. I think I cannot understand what is happenning because I really don't understand the role of sendmail in my system. Let me ask these basic questions: This is my computer at home, with just one real user and a dial-up connection. I use the SMTP server of my ISP to send outgoing mail, and download incoming mail from some POP3 servers with fetchmail. Whith this settings, where does sendmail intervene? Is sendmail used here just to deliver local mail (messages to root and so) and by the command line client "mail"? If I was right, how could sendmail be dealing with a message from [or to, I don't know] biz@6x6.net? I read in /etc/mail/access.sample that the default is to reject mail unless the destination is local. Does that make sense with the error reported in the first message? Sendmail keeps on reporting that error, it has being doing that all the day, how could I fix it? -- fxn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message