From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 19 09:52:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13804 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13791 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA00996; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:51:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35DB0290.EB6BCA0@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:51:28 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wm Brian McCane CC: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail messages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am getting the following message (frequently) on my web server. > I assume some idiot is trying to send me mail (or is trying to use me as a > relay). Anybody else see this, or know what it is? > > brian > > Aug 19 11:08:43 bmccane sendmail[20920]: LAA20920: ruleset=check_mail, > arg1=, relay=root@mail.maxbaud.net > [12.13.66.238], reject=451 ... Domain > does not resolve Yes, that would appear to be the case... The domain the mail is originating from ("savespaper.com") doesn't exist, therefore sendmail (and it looks like your running an up to date version) will bin it... We get loads here, binned because the domain doesn't exist, because the sender didn't specify an domain at all etc... ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message