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I have enabled the feature in sendmail.mc to check with spamhaus for spammers. However since this block is being made at MTA level, I would like to know is something can be done to obtain statistics of blocked attemps. thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama,

Hi All, I have a strange problem that I don't understand. I have an access file which has the following line: 168.144.250.215 OK # xsmtp02.mail2web.com Yet email from this IP address is getting rejected. From my log file Oct 15 21:52:33 mx01 sendmail[10569]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=xsmtp02.mail2web.com, arg2=168.144.250.215, relay=xsmtp02.mail2web.com [168.144.250.215], reject=553 5.3.0 OK # xsmtp02.mail2web.com Is this because I have commented out dnl FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl in my sendmail.mc? What is the ruleset check_relay actually doing in this case. I have...

Recently we began seeing lots of these log entries on our off-site mx smtp host. I have googled this but I am not clear from what I have read if this is something we can stop altogether or should even worry about. Comments? Logwatch. . . --------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------ SMTP SESSION, MESSAGE, OR RECIPIENT ERRORS ------------------------------------------