Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail makes an awful lot of log fill in maillog

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

KS> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:38:29 +0200
KS> From: Kim Schulz


KS> GW>   those ip addresses have no ptr records.
KS> GW>   maybe you can find the 0wner and ask them to fix it.
KS>
KS> we own the IP addresses but they are not in use at the

Terminology note: IP addresses are not "owned".


KS> moment, hence the missing ptr.  Im just wondering why it
KS> looks up those IP addresses when we use httpd (via php and
KS> sendmail) to send emails?

Even if the IP addresses are "unused"... are they bound to the
server?  Sendmail listens on *:25.


Eddy
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