[ale] beeping sendmail.cf [was: beeping procmail]

[James P. Kinney III]

It's a spam dumper. Keep it in place. For the bozo's that use a forged
email address with a domain name they made up, sendmail throws their
mail in the trash for you.

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:58, David S. Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:56:14PM -0400 David S. Jackson <deepbsd at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > 
> > Say, on my Slack 9 box, I've got procmail going, and I get beeps when
> > procmail is, I think, rejecting mail due to bad sender domains.  Not
> > exactly sure what the error is or what's generating it.  But the
> > beeps are driving me nuts.  I normally just have to leave the room
> > when I download mail, but that's not a good long-term solution to the
> > problem!  
> 
> Okay, bad form to reply to myself, but here's what I've found so far:
> 
> Watching the maillog during fetching mail, the beeps happen just
> before a "reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address yumi at gaemat.com
> does not resolve" appears.  This appears to be generated from the
> "ruleset=check_mail" function in sendmail.cf.  The rule in
> "check_mail" that appears to be getting tripped is:
> 
> R<TEMP> $*              $#error $@ 4.1.8 $: "451 Domain of sender
> address " $&f " does not resolve"
> 
> Not being a sendmail guru, where should I look next?  What does this
> line in sendmail.cf actually mean?
> 
> TIA!
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