From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 15:44:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3BC37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8799E447DB for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6CIBJ2Q005023; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6CIBJXI005022; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:11:19 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: randy@turbowarp.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rejected Mail Hosts Message-ID: <20020712181119.GB1280@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , randy@turbowarp.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1196.66.166.180.165.1026476769.squirrel@new.host.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1196.66.166.180.165.1026476769.squirrel@new.host.name> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 can you give a relevant excerpt from your /var/log/maillog and /var/log/secure please? -Adam >> (07.12.2002 @ 0526 PST): randy@turbowarp.net said, in 1.5K: << > Hello, > > I seem to have a situation I don't know where to begin looking to correct. > Actually, it is more of a annoyance than a problem. > > I have a Freebsd system located at a colocation facility that functions as > my development and email server. At home, I have a Windows ME computer > using Secure CRT to access the Freebsd system. > > While checking the daily logs, I notice that I have 20,000-50,000 mail > host rejections each day. All coming from my home machine. > > The messages that are getting rejected appear to be all to domains that I > have corresponded to in the past. > > The Window machine is on a completely different ISP/network and the > Freebsd machine has no special "knowledge" of the Windows machine. I have > updated the latest Macaffee Anti-virus and no virus was discovered. > > How is an SMTP connection being attempted, through the SSH connection? > The only connection between the 2 computers is the password authenticated > Secure CRT 3.4. As an added precaution I have set up sendmail access to > reject connections from the home Windows computer. (Although, prior, the > logs indicated that they were being rejected anyway.) > > On the Windows computer, I have and use Eudora (pop3/Imap) and Outlook > 2000 (Exchange client). > > I use other computers at other locations to connect in similar manners but > no SMTP rejections from these other locations. > > Any possible causes or solutions or where else to turn to look would be > appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Rejected Mail Hosts" from randy@turbowarp.net << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message