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On 20/02/2013 11:09, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 	From mexas Thu Feb 14 09:51:50 2013
> 	To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> 	Subject: daily otput: rejected mail hosts?
> 	Reply-To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk
>
> 	I see in the daily output:
>
> 	Checking for rejected mail hosts:
> 	 172 553 check_mail system.mail exist
> 	 129 553 check_mail tsvpt014.vpt.co.uk exist
> 	  43 553 check_mail unix.dedicated.com.tr exist
> 	  43 553 check_mail ubs.net exist
> 	  43 553 check_mail localhost.localdomain exist
> 	  43 553 check_mail journal-cfp.org exist
> 	  43 553 check_mail italiasito.it exist
>
> 	What is that about?
>
> 	Is this described somewhere in sendmail manuals?
>
> I got no reply from questions@, so trying my luck here.

questions@ is a better place to ask really as this isnt -CURRENT related, its part of the output of the daily periodic script
/etc/periodic/daily/460.status-mail-rejects 
which is enabled by default.
the defaults are in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
feel free to overide them in /etc/periodic.conf


Vince

>
> Thanks
>
> Anton
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