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Subject: RE: sshd
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>Hi,
> 
>I am completly new to freeBSD, and I get these error messages in E-mail:
>sshd[59575]: error: Authentication failure
>What could be the problem?
> 
>Please help me...

Who are they from?  They are probably from the sshd daemon (your own
machine) letting you know that someone tried (and failed) to log on to your
machine via ssh (secure shell - port 22).
-e