What made sendmail do this?

Gregory Nowak greg at romualt.dhs.org
Sat Jun 15 20:07:35 EDT 2002


Hmmmm, sounds like a dns issue.
Greg


On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:50:36PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> I've been using a combination of Fetchmail and Sendmail to send and
> receive email with no problems every since I first started using Linux.
> Today, however, something weird happened that has never happened to me
> before.  Sendmail suddenly started rejecting all incoming email with no
> explanation.  It started saying that the domain does not resolve.  For
> example:
>  Jun 15 17:23:15 homerun sendmail[1373]: g5FMNFS01373:
> from=<speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca>, size=3406, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=myrow at localhost [127.0.0.1] Jun 15 17:23:16
> homerun sendmail[1374]: g5FMNGS01374: ruleset=check_mail,
> arg1=<speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca>, relay=myrow at localhost [127.0.0.1],
> reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> does not resolve
> It may have caused Fetchmail to delete some messages, but not all of them.
> Anybody know what could have caused this?  I don't remember changing
> anything.  For now, I have Pine using my ISP's Imap server and SMTP server
> directly, but this is slow over a dial up which is why I have always used
> Fetchmail and Sendmail.  Any suggestions welcome.
> 
> 
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