From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 19:36: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.austclear.com.au (ns1.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18AB37B404 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns1.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1I3a0065508; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:36:00 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14525; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:36:00 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200202180336.OAA14525@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: ann kok Cc: Matthew Emmerton , edwin@mavetju.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: don't understand the message in maillog In-Reply-To: Message from ann kok of "Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:24:24 -0800." <20020218032424.17091.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:35:59 +1100 From: Tony Landells 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 I usually find that a line like that is an indication that sendmail has rejected the mail--it has a zero size and no recipients. You should actually find that somewhere in the log shortly before that line is an entry like: Feb 17 04:11:31 email sendmail[24444]: EAA24444: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=, relay=[208.254.57.2], reject=..... Where the "....." at the end is the rejection code, and an English explanation for the rejection. The ruleset may also be something different, but the anti-spam, anti-relay stuff usually starts with check_ Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message