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RE: [cobalt-users] maillog entry "does not resolve" - is spam getting through or being rejected?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] maillog entry "does not resolve" - is spam getting through or being rejected?
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Nov 7 16:07:01 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
>
> I've just noticed hundreds of entries such as the one below
> in my maillog. They occur roughly every three minutes.
>
> <ky5csc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>... Domain of sender address
> ky5csc@xxxxxxxxxxxx does not resolve
Just what it says. I can't find medic.net.au so neither could your
server so it rejected it. Maybe their DNS is down.
>
> Nov 7 04:44:16 (none) sendmail[24281]: hA74fam24281:
> from=<ky5csc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=1142, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=aphid.CSUChico.EDU [132.241.83.67]
That's the actual sending server. The return path email address must be
valid for the RaQ to accept it. 132.241.83.67 is listed as an open SMTP
relay by ordb.org.
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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky
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